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

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a8PD9 TIL one third of the living veterans of World War 2 are dying each year.
RA77 TIL that in 1986, when a five year old boy fell into a gorilla enclosure and lost consciousness, a gorilla named Jambo stood between the boy and the other gorillas in a protective gesture, he even stroke the boys back. This incident helped create a positive public perception of gorillas.
8eaWL TIL that Ancient Greece believed the uterus could wander around the body like an animal searching for conception and caused “hysteria” in women.
KOEAR TIL that Dinner was once the main meal of the day, served around one or two in the afternoon, while 'supper' was a much lighter meal, or even just a snack, eaten around sundown.
7VmZ TIL A thumbs down in gladiator fights did not mean the death of the loser, but instead the disapproval of the killing