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TIL that Saddam Hussein commissioned a copy of The Holy Quran, etched in his own blood. It took 27 litres of his blood to draft the Quran.

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9wOKQ TIL about author of the hymn " Amazing Grace " had a rather colorful vocabulary. During his tenure as a sailor, he was reprimanded on several occasions for using language that was deemed inappropriate by the captain, and for creating new words that were deemed to be even more offensive.
6LZX TIL there are only 2 countries in the world whose flags contain neither red, white, nor blue: Jamaica and Mauritania
69VmQ TIL that 12 million "Shrek Forever After" drinking glasses (sold by McDonalds) were recalled in 2010 for containing the toxic metal Cadmium in their painted decorations
Wp84 TIL Two brothers in Brooklyn started their own ISP when they couldn’t get reliable service in their neighborhood.
6ERk7 TIL Winston Churchill was half American. His mother, Jennie Jerome of Brooklyn, New York, later Lady Randolph Churchill, was a noted beauty of her day