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TIL that Saddam Hussein owned a Quran written in his own blood.

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JY7bQ TIL of ‘Shturmovshchina’—a Russian term for working frantically to meet a deadline after having not done anything for a month.
J1g9Q TIL The name of the star Antares is derived from the Greek Anti-Ares, meaning ''rival of Ares/Mars'' due to its brightness and noticeably red coloration
0M05 TIL The Simpsons is credited with the popularization of the word “Meh”
4k8Eg TIL of the "Dawson Film Find". 1900s Dawson was a remote gold rush town with a cinema. Film's sent there were never returned, accumulated, buried, covered by a hockey rink and forgotten. Years later diggers unearthed the 533 reels of lost films, and rare footage, including the 1919 World Series.
OVWX TIL that in order to match the Walmart Heirs’ fortune, you’d need to work there for 7 Million Years.