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TIL that Saddam Hussein wrote four novels before the Iraq War under the pen name, “He Who Wrote It.”

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69Xk7 TIL that Teddy Bear originiates from an incident in 1902 where President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt refused shooting a black bear.
j6GKX TIL about Lucy Salani, who was the only transgender person to have survived imprisonment and torture in the Nazi concentration camps.
6JrJ TIL that British Columbia woodsman Francis Wharton shot a deer in the late 1960s but had no serviceable teeth with which to eat it so he fashioned dentures out of the deer’s own teeth and ate it.
goAD TIL Garfield (the comic strip) was never supposed to be funny. It was crafted to fit a marketing niche.
Ypwdd TIL The Sultana steamboat sank in the Mississippi River, killing upwards of 1400 people (almost as many as the Titanic). Today the wreckage lies 37 feet below a soybean field in Marion, Arkansas.