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TIL that Jimmy Carter was not a fan of Salman Rushdie's work and wrote a 1989 op-ed calling his book an insult

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16QWX TIL birds in Australia, known as “fire hawks”, are known to utilize and spread fires in order to flush out prey.
GY7rg TIL approximately 62% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings accounts and 21% don’t even have a savings account
mxajY TIL about Desmond Doss, a WWII medic who was teased for his choice to not harm the enemy or wield a weapon. He would go on to win the Medal of Honor for saving more than 50 men after a mortar attack, and the heroics were made into the award winning movie "Hacksaw Ridge".
oBGKE TIL that in 1985 the French intelligence service bombed a ship docked in New Zealand to prevent it from protesting French nuclear testing.
kOZw7 TIL: The tiny island of Ōkunoshima in Japan (otherwise known as Usagi Jima or "Bunny Island"), previously the WWII manufacturing site for thousands of tons of poison gas, is now home to hundreds of feral rabbits and nobody is quite sure where they came from.