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TIL Fleece Johnson 'Booty Warrior' is out of prison and he published a book about his life

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WnBA TIL Arab and Persian lands produced several outspoken rationalists and atheists during Islamic Golden Age. Al-Ma'arri wrote and taught that religion itself was a “fable invented by the ancients” .
RvA8 TIL that Timothy Dexter the 18th century American businessman, writer, and noted eccentric, faked his own death to see how people would react. About 3,000 people attended Dexter’s mock wake. Dexter did not see his wife cry, and after he revealed the hoax, he caned her for not grieving enough.
65Kl TIL when Jay Z was 12 he shot his older brother for stealing his ring for drug money.
wLoVP TIL 8th President of the United States and first president to be born after the United States Declaration of Independence Martin Van Buren presidential pets where two tiger cubs given to him by the Sultan of Oman before Congress forced him to donate the tigers to the zoo.
1gOO TIL that, except under exceptional circumstances, drug testing for employment is not allowed in Canada, because it does not respect the Canadian Human Rights Act.