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TIL that Ibrahim the Mad, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, was obsessed with large ladies and ordered his officers to search far and wide for the fattest women in the land to add to his harem

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QNKmp TIL that Trickle down economics is actually a recycled version of the "Horse and Sparrow" Theory; the Horse-and-Sparrow theory dictates that if you feed a horse enough food, sparrows can feed off of the undigested feed in it's poop.
OOX7 TIL a waiter for the Ritz in Dubai overheard a man with his wheelchair-bound wife say it was a shame he couldn’t get her down to the beach. The waiter told maintenance, and the next afternoon there was a wooden walkway down the beach to a tent that was set up for them to have dinner in.
yryJ TIL for the Star Wars: Episode V, Lucas paid a fine and resigned from the Directors Guild rather than obey its demand that he begin with conventional opening credits.
9kwG TIL that one of the three members of the Lollipop Guild (from the Wizard of Oz) is still alive. He is one of three surviving munchkins and is the only male.
b9ggp TIL that flint and steel causes a spark because when the steel is struck against a hard object, such as flint, tiny shards of iron come off the steel and immediately oxidize, resulting in sparks.