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TIL The Judge Who Sentenced Saddam Was Executed by ISIS

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8aAmK TIL Sir John Harington (born 1560), known as the inventor of the flush toilet, is related to Kit Harington (born 1986) of Game of Thrones fame. It’s also why some people refer to the toilet as the ‘john’.
e0Rkn TIL that in Norse mythology at the end of the world (Ragnarok) the gods--Odin, Thor, Loki and the others--as well as all humans, will die. Evil triumphs over good, and the world will be engulfed in water.
oRRmR TIL that John Cena chose to act in all three "Fred" movies on Nickelodeon because he thought that the character's popularity was a cultural milestone and that Lucas Cruikshank's (the main actor) quick rise from posting on YouTube to getting a movie deal was the embodiment of the American Dream.
Ko06 TIL in 1897, a newlywed woman was found dead in her home. Although her death was attributed to natural causes, her mother’s insistence that she had been visited by the woman’s ghost compelled authorities to reopen the case, at which time an autopsy revealed the woman had suffered a broken neck.
Z11p TIL that Amy Van Dyken, a 6-times Olympic gold medalist swimmer, has been an asthmatic her whole life, proving that children with asthma can grow to be olympic-level athletes!