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TIL that in 2005, Iraqi terrorists held an action figure hostage and tried to claim that it was a U.S. Soldier.

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E1AwX TIL the area covering the present day Republic of Ireland lost over half of its population from 1841 to 1901. The population still hasn't fully recovered.
4XW8X TIL that there is another version of Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut. Richard Donner was the original director before he was replaced with Richard Lester. Only 25% of his filming made it into the original film. Apparently you can buy it on DVD.
nVd TIL Bob Ross donated all of the paintings from the TV shows to PBS stations across the country
6E7aY TIL Nicholas Culpeper, a 17th century physician married to wealthy heiress, enabling him to provide services free of charge while translating Latin medical text into English then sold them very cheaply for the poor who can't afford expensive physicians
AD5Wl TIL In 1986, two Pakistani brothers based in Lahore wrote one of the world’s first PC computer virus to protect their program from piracy. When the virus got to the hands of American researchers, it spawned an entirely new breed of software, the anti-virus program.