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TIL that the CIA considered making a fake Saddam Hussein sex tape.

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WE7Y TIL Isaac Asimov supported feminism even before the Women’s Liberation became a widespread movement, and that he joked that he wished women to be free “because I hate it when they charge”.
XEPEr TIL of Rapid Man, Colorado Rapids' mascot, "a cross between a muscular man-smurf and a steroid-enhanced Bart Simpson who had just emerged from taking the polar plunge"
LyMd TIL In 1986, a team of Canadian researchers exhumed the body of William Brane, a sailor who died 140 years earlier during the Franklin Expedition of 1846. After being removed from the permafrost and thawed, the body was still flexible, and intestinal flora were found still living inside.
wreo TIL that Ratko Mladić, or the “Butcher of Bosnia”, was most likely highly influenced by the apparent ‘suicide’ of his daughter in committing the “worst crime on European soil since the WWII”: the Srebrenica Massacre where 8,400 people died
oRDQE TIL: "Weird Al" Yankovic has a Billboard top-10 song. "White and Nerdy" peaked at number 9 on the Hot 100