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

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Xrek TIL more men want children than women. “8 out of 10 men say they’ve always wanted to be fathers, compared to 7 out of 10 women who say they’ve always wanted to be mothers.”
M9B TIL that water droplets can orbit around charged knitting needles.
eyZb TIL the United States is second behind China in the consumption of illegal animal products like ivory, rhinoceros horn and tiger blood
jNpVn TIL a California man got 'NULL' as a personalized license plate hoping that 'NULL' would confuse the computer system. Instead, when cops left the plate number info empty on a ticket or citation, the fine went to him. He got over $12k fines sent to him his first year.
E1wJo TIL Mike May, who became blind at age 3, got his sight back after more than 40 years but still had no idea how to see after his operation. Even though his eyes now worked perfectly, the visual part of his brain was so underdeveloped that it could not make any sense of the information coming in.