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TIL That General Hussein Kamel al-Majid and his brother General Saddam Kamel, who were cousins of Saddam Hussein and married to two of his daughters, defected to Jordan in 1995 to work with the West. In 1996 Saddam convinced them to come home as all was forgiven, they were both dead inside 3 days.

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yVdQX TIL that every year, on average, the Earth gains 45,000 tons of mass due to micrometeorites and space dust, but loses 100,000 tons due to loss of atmospheric gases. It also loses 65 tons per year due to the launch of spacecraft on escape trajectories.
D1XXY TIL a Subway sandwich artist was trapped in a refrigerator overnight and wrote a desperate plea for help in ketchup.
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