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TIL It was actually Jimmy Carter to handle and get the release of the hostages during the Iranian Hostage Crisis, NOT Ronald Reagan

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L9aP TIL that Simon Cowell praised Rebecca Black’s song “Friday”: “the fact that it’s making people so angry is brilliant”. He advised her to not “listen to anyone over the age of 18. I’m being deadly serious. Whatever she’s done has worked … she’s the most talked-about artist in America right now”.
a8dQy TIL Beijing's Tiananmen square is 880-metre-long and 500-metre-wide with a capacity to hold one million people. It is open from 4am to 11pm everyday
OYPL TIL While being tasty, honey is also one of natures most effective aticeptics killing drug resistant bacteria in addition to most normal kinds. Honey also keeps its properties for thousands of years requiring only to be heated up and used as normal.
D67D TIL the families of the columbine shooters have paid out millions in settlements to the victims and their families.
y648 TIL that due to waste-water injections from fracking, Oklahoma has gone from an average of about 3 earthquakes a year in the 1970’s to having roughly 900 earthquakes in 2015.