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TIL that Mehmed the Conqueror spared the lives of young men condemned to death if he found them attractive, and added them to his harem.

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VMZD4 TIL in 1998 Two set of Family, a Christian from Siberia Russia and the other a Muslim Tajikistan native, got their 1st born daughters accidentally swapped at birth. The mistake was discovered 12 yrs later. The divorced Russian couple went thru DNA test for the settlement of alimony.
Ypg5x TIL The NASA Space Shuttles operated with 1mb of RAM in five redundant computers. That's less than the average .mp3 file.
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