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TIL Muammar Qaddafi was obsessed with Secretary of State, Condolezza Rice. During one visit he showed her a video with photos of her with various people, set to a song composed just for her called ‘Black Flower in the White House.’ When his house was raided a scrapbook of her pictures was found.

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V5Bp TIL the Sun is the most perfect sphere ever observed in nature.
kwV7 TIL of ‘The Jungle,’ the largest homeless encampment in the US – ironically, next to a creek in Silicon Valley.
gMpwb TIL a bunch of Harry Potter fans built a legitimate cult-like religion called Snapeism, based on the idea that Severus Snape was an immortal deity whose spirit inspired JK Rowling to write the Harry Potter books
myRp TIL that Woody Allen refused oscars saying, “The whole concept of awards is silly. I cannot abide by the judgment of other people, because if you accept it when they say you deserve an award, then you have to accept it when they say you don’t.”
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