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TIL There's a football(soccer) player named Osama Vinladen with a brother named Saddam Hussein.

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yVgal TIL that “Shanghaiing” was the practice in the 18th and 19th centuries of kidnapping men to become sailors on board ships, due to laws that imprisoned people for leaving a ship before the voyage was done
yVVne TIL that there is a group of religious leaders who have worked for 40 years supporting reproductive freedom
LAkd TIL Author J.D. Salinger stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day and carried a work in progress with him which would later become “Catcher in the Rye”
YRR7 TIL that each Oscar Award loser receives a consolation bag of goodies. This year’s “goodie bag” was worth $48,000.
Ooo1Y Short answer: At least one in 50 scientists is doing something fishy