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TIL Saddam Hussein's son Uday Hussein was head of the Iraqi Football (Soccer) team and arrested/tortured Iraqi athletes if they lost.

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a84pL TIL Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide was first released in 1969 when Leonard Maltin was still a teenager.
GAPVN TIL there is a musical group that uses instruments made from vegetables. After their shows leftover vegetables are cooked in soups.
9nbm TIL The Horseshoe Crab, which has been around for 450 million years, bleeds blue blood because it has Hemocyanin, which has copper, instead of hemoglobin as a transport protein.
O1P6 TIL: All states in the US are divided into counties, with two exceptions: Louisiana, which consists of parishes, and Alaska, which uses boroughs.
oDnr TIL Al Jaffee, cornerstone artist for MAD Magazine (including the signature “Fold-Ins”) is still producing artwork at the sprightly age of 94.