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TIL that Muzzammil Hassan, the founder of a TV network designed to combat negative stereotypes of Muslims, beheaded his wife because she filed for divorce

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b6l9E TIL for the last 8 years Ukranians have referred to Russia as "Mordor"
oRWN8 TIL Thomas Edison fabricated the Electric Chair as part of a smear campaign designed to paint Nikola Tesla's Alternating Current (AC) power as more dangerous than Edison's Direct Current (DC) power.
b6gME TIL Michael Jordan still holds the record for worst score in a three point contest; making only 5 out of 30 shots in 1990.
YpoA7 TIL Kane Tanaka, the oldest person currently alive, was born before the Wright brothers flew. As of today (April 19th), she is the only human ever to exist during the first powered flights on both Earth and Mars.
8a58b TIL that the South Korean military established "comfort women" prostitution facilities in Vietnam and massacred more than 300,000 Vietnamese people during the Vietnam War.