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

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wvJ TIL In 1986, 1.6 million tonnes of CO2 erupted from Lake Nyos in Cameroon, displacing all the air and suffocating some 1,700 people within 25 kilometers of the lake.
KYOaa TIL Movies made in France can access a tax rebate (worth up to 40% of spend) if the movie passes a Cultural Test, which awards points if at least one main character is "of a nationality that cannot be determined". More points for sets being "symbolic of France".
Nl5N TIL that David Barrett, an aeronautics engineer who resigned abruptly after seeing a vision of Jesus, spent 40 years single-handedly compiling the first and only complete list of Earth’s 10,000 existing religions and 33,830 denominations of Christianity. This led him to all 238 countries on Earth.
a8x89 TIL Manute Bol may have invented the phrase "My Bad"
epDZb TIL exactly what it means to be “Hanged, drawn and quartered”: “…fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces).”