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TIL while he was in prison awaiting his trail (and eventual execution), Saddam Hussen was forced by U.S. Marines to repeatedly watch “South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut,” in which he was portrayed as Satan’s homosexual lover.

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ploZ TIL in 1887, a mathematician received a prize for his work on the stability of the solar system. A year later, after finding an error in his own work, he published a paper contradicting it, which led to the development of chaos theory.
YaVA TIL that “corny” jokes were originally used to make corn seed catalogs less boring to read
j61WN TIL Ross Edgley Swam 1,780 miles (2,860 km) all the way around Great Britain in 157 days
WMkA TIL that the red juice that comes off of meat actually isn’t blood.
kO6mE TIL The parents of one of John Wayne Gacy’s victims, John Butkovich, called police more than a hundred times to urge them to investigate him further. Their son had vanished in 1975, and had been one of Gacy’s employees.