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TIL that in 2002 Iraqi vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan proposed that Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush should fight a duel to settle their differences.

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0KM TIL Nick Frost kept his genitals shaved throughout the production of Shaun of the Dead to create a genuine need to scratch that the character demanded.
8P5V TIL there are 550,000 miles of flexible undersea cables that carry the world’s data. Both USA and UK government agencies tap directly into it
4kbgR TIL the British Columbia Lottery Corp. was ordered to pay back hundreds of thousands of dollars to gamblers whose jackpots were withheld because they had won them after volunteering to ban themselves from casinos. The ruling only covered a 14 month period due to a change in law in 2010.
woo9Y TIL you are allowed to take your own personal parachute on a commercial flight as long as it meets certain requirements
j8gv TIL Super Mario wears a hat because his creator found it too difficult to draw his hair and eyebrows.