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Today I learned Bin Laden had claimed he wasn't behind the 9/11 attacks.

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6ENGZ TIL that Fox initially did not want Gillian Anderson in the role of Dana Scully on The X-Files because they thought she wasn't hot enough
LdOp TIL that 100,000 years ago, at least three major rivers existed in Sahara
bYbN TIL Edgar Allen Poe wrote a novel in 1838 about a shipwreck where the survivors ate one of their own, Richard Parker. 46 years later, a yacht called the Mignonette sank, leaving 4 survivors. They, too ate one of the survivors, a cabin boy named Richard Parker.
K5QB TIL Every British armoured fighting vehicle, up to and including tanks, provides onboard tea making facilities.
xvok TIL that whenever German victories were announced on the radio in occupied Denmark, the Danish Resistance would cut into the broadcast and play “It Ain’t Necessarily So” from Porgy and Bess.