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TIL Bill Murray Actually Bowled The 3 Tournament Winning Strikes At The End Of Kingpin

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oByjK TIL about Masoud, a black slave belonging to Fatimid Caliph Al Hakim. Al Hakim would wander the streets of Cairo looking for deceptive merchants, and when he discovered one he would have Masoud publicly sodomise the man.
AD9Jx TIL That malaria has killed more than half of all humans since they were created.
wL4LP TIL "Puce" is French for "flea" and represents the dark reddish stain left when a blood-gorged flea is crushed against linen. It was a favorite color of Marie Antoinette.
W7J99 TIL that India and Pakistan played a Cricket World Cup Match in 1999 while both countries were at war with each other.
6EOKJ TIL that Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, Antarctica and New Zealand are the only countries in the world with no native or wild snake populations.