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

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oyLR TIL: There is an intact cask of plutonium dioxide on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean because Apollo 13 failed to land on the moon
VAl0 TIL not only is Agatha Christie the best-selling novelist of all time, she was also among one of the first Britons to surf standing up.
J1dX4 TIL Around 500,000 maya peoples live in the United States
xl5D TIL in 1989, the forward cargo door of a 747 flying from Honolulu to Auckland blew off, causing decompression of the cabin and ejecting 9 passengers from the plane to their deaths over 22,000ft below. 2 flight attendants narrowly avoided being sucked out of the plane.
VBWND TIL In Japan, Splintered baseball bats are given a new lease on life by being turned into kattobashi: "a mash-up of the Japanese word for chopsticks and a baseball chant that translates as 'get a big hit.”