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TIL: 32% of Iraqis are not sure if Allah exists, 11% of Iraqis think that Allah doesn’t exist

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7Elr TIL A man robbed a bank by poisoning the staff with cyanide, he disguised himself as a public health offical sent to do dysentery innoculations. 10 people died.
KVJ4 TIL that in 1948, the citizens of Nanking, including the mayor himself, raised a very large sum of money for John Rabe after learning that he was in poverty in occupied Germany, because of his efforts to stop the atrocities during the Nanking Massacre in 1937 within the Safety Zone.
m50Y TIL the FBI once wrote a letter to Martin Luther King suggesting he commit suicide.
grwny TIL the official name for a hashtag is "octothorpe".
QmML TIL Funyuns were originally going to be called “OnYums”, but it was discovered that name was already taken.