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TIL that The Old Man and the Sea was one of Saddam Hussein’s favourite books because it was about “struggling against overwhelming odds with courage, perseverance and dignity”

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N77nb TIL... because it takes longer for Venus to rotate on it's axis than it does to rotate around the Sun if you were born on Venus you would turn 1 year old before you turned 1 day old
OGEL1 TIL when Tim Berners-Lee proposed what later became the WWW, his superior noted it as „vague but exciting“
XEd4r TIL when Luciano Pavarotti suddenly fell ill and was unable to sing Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" at the 1998 Grammys, Aretha Franklin filled in for him at “literally a moment’s notice" and sang an acclaimed rendition of the aria
Xm7R TIL that when a bee mates with a queen its ejaculation is so powerful that it is audible by the human ear.
bA50 TIL of the saltiest body of water on Earth, The Don Juan Pond. It is located in Antarctica but never freezes because of its high salinity.