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TIL in 2000 Saddam Hussein anonymously published a romance novel called 'Zabiba and the King.'

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EgYoW TIL: Under the Federal Housing Act (FHA) in the US, it is possible for people with disabilities to terminate a lease if the place of living is making their condition worse and there are no other reasonable accommodations to be made.
owlW TIL albino redwood trees are unable to produce chlorophyll, however, they can survive because they are able to fuse their roots with the roots of other redwood trees and live as parasites.
b4wZ TIL that scientists created a “quantum gas” that reached temperatures below absolute zero in which it exhibits characteristics similar to dark energy.
xRLo TIL that after watching Dr. Strangelove Daniel Ellsberg, who had been a RAND analyst and a consultant at the Defense Department, turned to his colleague and said, “That was a documentary!”
m10oy TIL: The Aztec "king" Moctezuma II was not a king; he was the great speaker of the alliance between three cities which dominated most of central Mexico