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TIL Uday Hussein murdered his father’s valet with an electric carving knife in front of guests at a party

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8eEW8 TIL Wilt Chamberlain had 118 50+ point games in his NBA career. He also had more 50-point games in the 1961-62 season than any other player has had in their entire career.
LlMV TIL crows recognise human faces and hold grudges against ones they do not like.
5YbBB TIL that Oxford University is so old that they don’t even know when exactly it was founded and that the earliest evidence of teaching there goes back to 1096.
M7R87 TIL about Oliver Sipple a man who stopped an assasination attempt on US president Gerald Ford in 1975, however the news also told that this man was gay and because of that it generated great controversy, even so that the president only wrote a note thanking him and his family disowned him.
WkBQ4 TIL of the Andersen Air Force Base B-2 accident, resulting in a $1.4b USD loss for a single aircraft.