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TIL Israeli PM Netanyahu, speaking to a House Committee in 2002 as a private American citizen, lied about Saddam Hussein building Nuclear weapons.

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j6KBX TODAY I LEARNED The hardest working muscle in your body is your heart—it pumps more than 2,000 gallons of blood a day and beats more than 2.5 billion times in a 70-year life span
neLgY TIL that in 1898, the black majority city of Wilmington, NC was subject to a white mob that expelled opposition black and white political leaders from the city, destroyed the property and businesses of black citizens, and killed 60 - 300 people.
oBONR TIL The oldest known reference of the Ancient Egyptian board-game of Senet—aside from a few fragments —is in a painting on the tomb of Hesy-Ra, a member of high Egyptian court, who lived during the reign of Pharaoh Djoser around 2600 B.C.
QNlX6 TIL Bob Barker was an enrolled member of the Sioux Tribe and grew up on a reservation in South Dakota
KOyX4 TIL of Christian Adamek, a 15 year old High School Student that faced criminal charges and possible registration as a Sex Offender after streaking during a High School Football Game, 2 days after the stunt he took his own life.