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TIL in 2005, during a Muslim Pilgrimage in Baghdad, one man pointed to another and accused him of carrying explosives. 953 People died in the resulting stampede.

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nbwW TIL that Tyler, the Creator and Donald Glover (Childish Gambino) were on an episode of ‘the Regular show’.
Q8l6 TIL that in 1860 an 11-year old girl wrote to Presidential Nominee Abraham Lincoln, urging him to grow a beard, as “..ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for [you] and then [you] would be President.” Lincoln not only wrote back, but had a full beard by his Inauguration.
XQW6 TIL: At its center, a place climatologists call absolute desert, the Atacama is known as the driest place on Earth. There are sterile, intimidating stretches where rain has never been recorded, at least as long as humans have measured it
jWnM TIL The Great Wall of China is being stolen brick-by-brick by locals to build houses and also by visitors as souvenirs.
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