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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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p8GdG Tuberculosis has killed some of the most influential people in history. Popular names include Pocahontas, George Orwell, Andrew Jackson, Franz Kafka, Jane Austin, John Smith, Frederic Chopin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Egy9X TIL that adults have 206 bones, while babies start out with around 305. Bones fuse together as we grow, which is why we end up with fewer bones than we had at birth, with a quarter of our bones being in our feet.
ADY14 TIL a party boat carrying sixty men and women once capsized in Texas after all the passangers rushed to one side as the boat passed a nude beach.
9MeX TIL Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter while high on LSD. The MLB refuses to release footage saying its “an embarrassment to the league”.
ANKva TIL in 1998, the FBI sought to extract DNA from the cigarette butts smoked in 1971 by the unidentified airline hijacker known only as D.B. Cooper, but discovered the butts had been destroyed while in the custody of the Las Vegas field office.