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TIL that no Prime Minister of Pakistan has ever completed a full five-year term since the country’s independence in 1947.

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a896L TIL of Frigg Fjord, the northernmost settlement in human history. In northern Greenland, it is 544km (338mi) farther north than Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Inhabited even in winter approximately 2400 years ago, inhabitants would have spent 139 straight days with the sun below the horizon.
BraQd TIL that George Lucas originally approached Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, and Robert Zemeckis to direct the Prequel Trilogy, but all of them refused, each saying almost the exact same thing; "George, you should do it!"
DeEv TIL In the original version of The Hobbit, Gollum willingly bets the ring on the outcome of the Riddle Game, and they part on friendly terms. It was later revised to it’s current version to fit Tolkien’s planned sequel.
kxA1 TIL that it was believed that women with bound feet developed extra strong vaginal muscles because of the mincing steps they took, thus making sex more pleasurable.
Prmg TIL that Abdul Sattar Edhi, a Pakistani man, rescued over 20,000 abandoned infants, rehabilitated over 50,000 orphans, has trained over 40,000 nurses and runs the largest ambulance network in the world. He also donated all his body parts before passing away.