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TIL Saddam Hussein wrote a romance novel that sold a million copies. Yes, that Saddam Hussein!

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neAVG TIL In search for a new mathematical model to replace the decimal system, Gottfried Wilhelm von Liebniz read a 3000 year old Chinese book “I Ching”. Fascinated by the simplicity of Yin and Yang, Liebniz used this philosophy to create the binary number system.
1Jo8 TIL there is a free online library with over a million ebooks available for “borrowing”
GAnaQ TIL Children can suffer of dementia
Br0Yy TIL: Despite its popularity in 1939, The Wizard of Oz didn't make a profit until it was re-released ten years later.
OGVW4 TIL of the 2016 Kasese Clashes, a brief conflict that erupted between Ugandan security forces and the royal guards of a subnational kingdom called the Rwenzururu kingdom. In the end, the Omusinga (king) of Rwenzururu was arrested and 87 of his men perished.