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TIL- In 1980 Saddam Hussein was given the key to the city of Detroit

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obYW TIL Demetri Martin wrote a 224 word palindrome (Reads same back as forth, letter for letter) poem about alcoholism.
Z8AMD TIL that the 1911 obituary of American millionaire Frank Work contained his rant against the arranged marriages of American heiresses to British noblemen for dowry. He thought it should be a 'hanging offence' - the waste of American money paying off private debts in exchange for aristocratic titles.
YWZv TIL that James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair, who voiced Mufasa and Sarabi in “The Lion King,” also played an African royal couple 6 years earlier in Eddie Murphy’s “Coming to America”
rRjP1 TIL male octopuses evolved to have detachable penises due to cannibalistic female mating practices
QJw8d TIL after MLK won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, Atlanta's business elite opposed an interracial celebration. Paul Austin, chair/CEO of CocaCola (1962–1981) & supporter of MLK summoned them & dared to move CocaCola's HQ out of Atlanta. Every ticket to the dinner was sold in 2 hours after the meeting