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TIL that the last recipient of the Gaddafi Human Rights Prize is Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who was awarded the prize in 2010.

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mM8O TIL in 2008, 9-year-old Nathan Thomson was stabbed in the face as he fought an armed intruder who tried to kill his mother, who was stabbed 8 times. After saving his mother from the slasher, he has been recommended for a bravery award by one of Scotland’s senior law officers for his heroic act.
pYaYN TIL That when 'Wayne's World' was filming, Mike Myers didn't know how to drive a car, so he had to take driving lessons from Sears
dDRod TIL that in 1933, FBI Director John Edgar Hoover learned of a namesake who had failed to pay a debt of $900 to a store in Washington. As Hoover was particular about paying his bills on time and so did not want to be associated with this disreputable behavior, he changed his name to "J. Edgar Hoover"
8aOdK TIL rather than using a mirror, some observatory telescopes were built to use a large, spinning pool of liquid metal as a reflecting surface
7oR7 TIL In the mid-1980s, Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas was the voice of Charlie Brown’s sister Sally