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TIL as head of Iraq’s Olympic Committee, Saddam Hussein’s son Uday dragged athletes who underperformed through a gravel pit, then immersed them in sewage to induce infection.

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a80E9 TIL In the country of Georgia you can undergo treatment for bacterial diseases using viruses called Bacteriophages, which have shown potential as a solution to antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
LkQrZ TIL Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church subscribed to a Calvinist doctrine known as "equal ultimacy," which holds that there is no free will and that God deliberately causes some people to be righteous and others to be wicked.
7rrg7 TIL Dogs wag their tails on the right, when they see things they want to approach, and on the left when they want to avoid them
oQY TIL that the phrase “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all”. Is now known as “Thumper’s rule” or “Thumper’s law” after the character in Bambi.
5V9B9 TIL that 80s child actress Judith Barsi made so much money by 4th grade, her family bought a house in West Hills. She died at age 10 when her father killed the entire family. Her final films, “The Land Before Time” and “All Dogs Go To Heaven,” were released posthumously.