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TIL Saddam Hussein’s son owned an actual iron maiden and used it against people he didn’t like.

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yVKEv TIL: The common birds around your yard often sleep nearby in flocks in trees, but not in nests--they abandon those soon after their eggs hatch. Birds on the edges of flocks often sleep with one eye open, including ducks that roost in water. Birds in the center sleep with both eyes shut.
gNdL TIL - Thomas Edison considered sleep a waste of time and got 3-4 hours per night. In contrast, Albert Einstein claimed to need 10 hours and Calvin Coolidge, while president, demanded 11!
WkeR8 TIL in 2013 'Scientific American' analyzed the characteristics of all emerging diseases, they found "all known diseases of the 20th century were linked to sudden human population growth, new human activity in the environment and high wildlife diversity in the area where the pathogen originated."
epaVE TIL: A US Air Force cadet was reading about WWII when he stumbled upon the name of a janitor that worked at his USAF Academy. That’s how it was discovered at the academy that that janitor was a Medal of Honor recipient.
newVW TIL in 2015 a Texas man attempted to shoot an armadillo, but it's armored shell bounced the bullet back and hit the shooter in the head