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TIL That in 2006 one of Saddam Hussein’s Generals who defected wrote a book about the operation to move WMDs from Iraq to Syria before the US invasion.

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WewY TIL Khrushchev lunched in IBM’s cafeteria in 1959 and admired the concept of self-serve dining - which was so unknown in the Soviet Union - that he went home and instructed Soviet factories to build cafeterias which mimicked what he’d seen in San Jose
wory1 TIL - Catfish (Siluriformes) are the vertebrate order with the largest number of venomous species
J1avB TIL the New York Times, in 1944, Introduced Readers to an Exciting New Food: Pizza
woJRM TIL “Double Sunrise” was a flight operated by Qantas in 1943 between Australia and Sri Lanka that used to take nearly 28 hours observing two sunrises
7MAX TIL there is a typewriter that types only in Comic Sans, called the “Sincerity Machine”