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

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lorxV TIL Pope John XII died on 14 May 964; one story relates that he died of a paralytic stroke suffered while having sex with a woman named Stefanetta. He may have died instead when the woman's husband defenestrated John or beat him to death with a hammer during the act.
1avOX TIL that the man running from the robot in the “Night of the Robot” movie on spongebob was actually Dan Povenmire the creator of Phineas and Ferb who wrote some episodes of spongebob.
jN4a TIL that when asked what he’d do if his daughter got pregnant, Republican Vice President Dan Quayle said in 1992 that he would support her in whatever she decided to do. Asked the same about his own daughter, then presidential challenger Bill Clinton replied “I wouldn’t talk to the press about it.”
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Y7n6W TIL that the trail of Lewis and Clark can be partially tracked through the mercury left from their excrement