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TIL Serial killer Marcel Petriot joined the hunt for himself

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VlBZ TIL Queen became the first rock act to receive an official seal of approval in Iran partly due to the appeal to “Bismillah” in Bohemian Rhapsody, which is the name of God in Arabic.
L9xQ TIL that through the process of grafting it is possible for one tree to produce multiple types of fruit. One remarkable example is the Tree of 40 fruit that produces up to 40 different stone fruits simultaneously
yVxxX TIL On August 11, 1952, the Jordanian parliament forced King Talal to abdicate less than 13 months into his rule due to his mental illness. He would spend the rest of his life in a sanatorium.
5YnP TIL that the reason the Toronto Maple Leafs are not called the Maple “Leaves” is that the name was chosen in honour of the Maple Leaf Regiment from World War I. As the regiment is a proper noun, its plural is Maple Leafs (not Maple Leaves).
7rmk7 TIL in 2000 Saddam Hussein anonymously published a romance novel called 'Zabiba and the King.'