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TIL Somali General Mohamed Farrah Aidid’s son, Hussein Farrah Aidid, emigrated to the USA when he was 14. He would later join the Marines & be stationed in Somalia as translator during Operation Restore Hope, the mission that targeted his father. Upon his father’s death, he was chosen as successor

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Z6ZY TIL one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s apprentices designed a building that was declared historic only twenty years after it was built: Thorncrown Chapel in Arkansas.
9YVVp TIL Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate issued an edict of religious toleration. The rationale for the edict was most likely based less on high minded principles and more on the idea that giving legal cover to heretic clerics would lead the Christians to bicker themselves to death
7Ed7 TIL that Morgan Freeman has been nominated for and won more awards than the total number of movies he’s starred in.
P1PNe TIL that the British were the first to call the sport "soccer," as a shortening of "association football"
YpBGx TIL that according to research, our love for shiny things comes from an evolutionary instinct to seek out water