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

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wo8V7 TIL that baseball superstar Steve Garvey’s wife Cynthia left him in 1983 for music legend Marvin Hamlisch. Some people may only know Hamlisch as the guy that played the song “You’re So Vain” on the piano in the movie How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days.
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