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TIL Saladin, legendary leader of the Muslims during the Third Crusade, was Kurdish

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lXVa TIL an artificially intelligent computer was programmed to reflect some of the issues present in schizophrenia, and it proceeded to claim to be a terrorist.
KO1LJ TIL Oral sex linked to Bacterial Vaginosis.
VBMQB TIL that much of what we know about narcolepsy comes from studies of Dachshunds, who can experience narcoleptic fits due to the excitement of receiving yummy tinned food
oBk1r TIL train robber Elmer McCurdy's mummified corpse was used as decoration in carnivals during the 1920's and wasn't properly identified as real until 1976. It scared a young boy named Mark Taylor so greatly it stuck with him into adulthood, and inspired him to create He-Man's nemesis: Skeletor.
D1W6J TIL that hedgehogs hibernate and one way you can tell the difference between a hibernating hedgehog and a dead one is if it emits a tiny snore.