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lVRV TIL there’s video of Saddam Hussein becoming dictator of Iraq in 1979 at a Baath party leadership meeting, where he named some members as traitors – and then ordered the rest to go outside and execute them
EgGDp TIL isoamyl acetate is released by a honey bee's stinger where it serves as a pheromone beacon to attract other bees and provoke them to sting. It's also used as banana flavoring.
epRkk TIL that the town of Longyearbyen on Svalbard only experiences sunrises and sunsets on 127 days of the year, from August 23 to October 27 and from February 15 to April 18.
Gmx5 TIL there is a pill that gets you drunker with less booze and reduces hangover symptoms.
woj96 TIL about the Family Viewing Hour, a 1975 FCC policy that TV networks in the USA had to air "family-friendly" programming during the first hour of prime-time. The policy was abandoned in 1977 following a ruling by a federal court that it violated the First Amendment.