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TIL that in the 19th century people called homosexuals “Uranian”

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Oo7OR TIL of Zeynab bint Al-Harith, a jewish woman who poisoned the Islamic Prophet Muhammad because he killed her entire family.
rRbP4 TIL 'Turn On' (1969) was the shortest lived show in TV history, being yanked off the air by some affiliates before it even returned from the first commercial break in the first episode. The creators were paid to never air it again.
9wXRX TIL that Nigerian leaders have stolen over $400 billion in public funds since the 1980s (six times the entire Marshall Plan for rebuilding Europe after WWII), and much of it sits in wealthy countries whose legal systems make it nearly impossible to recover.
XNkE TIL the former leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, had the campaign slogan, “Do not expect any change from me.”
E1G8d TIL Daniel Kish is a blind man who taught himself to navigate by echolocation (like bats) by making swift clicking sounds that reflected from objects around him. Using these reflected sounds, he makes a mental image of his surroundings. He now trains others to 'see' the world like he does.