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TIL: Iraq's GDP is $284 Billion

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yJAl TIL splenda was discovered when a foreign graduate student was told to test a chlorinated sugar compound. He thought he was asked to “taste” it, so he did. It was later found to be safe to eat.
6r6Q TIL a 12 year old French boy faked his own kidnapping, going so far as to lie to police, saying he was taken by a cheek-scarred villain, all so that he wouldn’t have to go to the dentist.
wopgP TIL When Napoleon died in exile on the island of St. Helena in 1821, his doctor surreptitiously took his penis during the autopsy and gave it to a priest, who smuggled it to Corsica.
oBjEA TIL Mice are not simply female rats. They are different animals entirely
VwND TIL that Eric Idle of Monty Python fame called George Harrison “one of the few morally good people that rock and roll has produced”.