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TIL US Marines forced Saddam Hussein to watch South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut while in prison

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re5w TIL there was a woman that faces jail for growing vegetables in her front yard; five large planter boxes containing basil, cabbage, carrots, tomatoes and cucumbers. The charges got dropped later on after the city was hammered with negative publicity.
lO5G TIL of Melvin Dummar, who in 1976, claimed a man left an envelope containing Howard Hughes’ will on the desk of the gas station he managed. Dummar was named in it and stood to inherit $145 million. No other will was ever found.
9wDPB TIL a TV show saved the life of a dying man, who had been denied coverage by an HMO for a pancreas transplant, by staging a mock funeral outside the company's headquarters. The company agreed to pay for the operation a week later.
m1W6P TIL that lobsters communicate by peeing on each other.
grv5X TIL the world’s first newspaper horoscope happened because British newspapers ran out of stuff to talk about when Princess Margaret was born in 1930.