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TIL In 2003 the US troops found approximately 650 Million US Dollars inside the walls of Saddam Hussein’s palace.

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Y87x TIL that Liquindi, or Pygmy water drumming, is practiced by the Baka Forest People of central Africa. Tones are produced by trapping air in one’s hands and hitting the surface of the water, to create percussive musical rhythms.
5Y4YP TIL of Otis Blackwell, a black songwriter who wrote some of Elvis Presley's songs including "Return to Sender" and "All Shook Up". The two never met.
X0v8Q TIL that Vietnamese Communist independence leader Ho Chi Minh allegedly said that he would prefer to eat French shit for five years than to eat Chinese shit for 1,000 years.
yDbv TIL that in the early Roman Republic, when the lower class got fed up they all left the city until the upper class was willing to negotiate
x61nD til playing cards have historical meaning which started in 1370s in Europe probably in Spain or Italy as imports or possessions of merchants from the Islamic Mamlūk dynasty centred in Egypt. Like their originals, the first European cards were hand-painted, making them luxury goods for the rich.