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TIL that Suddam Hussain personally responded to a letter he received after 9/11 from a United States citizen. He offered his condolences and explained his initial reaction.

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xVr60 TIL that a topless, laid-back statue of Abraham Lincoln stands at a federal court in Los Angeles; sculptor James Lee Hansen explained in 1941 that "from a sculpturing standpoint, it’s better to show the body without any clothes, [so] that’s why I left ’em off"
p8wOA TIL it is illegal in China to be reincarnated without government approval.
epZPL TIL in 2012, a California high school student was directed to urinate in a bucket in a supply room closet after a teacher mistakenly believed that bathroom breaks were not permitted. In 2017, a court ordered the school district to pay the student $1.25 million.
Vdgp TIL that Bell distributed a manual cardboard computer to high school students in 1968 to teach them how computers work
m1dvo TIL when breastfeeding, the mammary glands will detect pathogens in the baby's saliva and create the needed antibodies for it in the milk.