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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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dLxB TIL Slaughterhouse workers are more likely to be violent, and it is believed this is because they have become desensitized to suffering
OG49R TIL that multiple consultants to the 1992 film American Me, were murdered by the Mexican Mafia who were offended by certain scenes, with actor Danny Trejo putting the number killed at 10.
Rro9 TIL in Japanese myth there’s a creature called the Ashiaraiyashiki. It is a giant, unwashed foot that appears before you and demands to be washed. If you don’t wash it, it will rampage through your house.
j8Pn TIL The founder of match.com, Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to a guy she met on match.com
Y70w7 TIL the most destructive single air attack in human history was the napalm bombing of Tokyo on the night of 10 March 1945 that killed around 100,000 civilians in about 3 hours