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TIL that a Taliban commander wanted with a bounty on his head gave himself up to try to collect that bounty.

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wY1P TIL George Clooney got into a fistfight with Three Kings (1999) director David O. Russell on the set. Russell had yelled and derided a few extras out of frustration and Clooney didn’t appreciate it. Russell has since said, “I wouldn’t make another George Clooney movie if they paid me $20 million.”
kbr5 TIL IKEA products have names because the company’s dyslexic founder has an easier time remembering proper names. Also, those names follow set rules.
lorxV TIL Pope John XII died on 14 May 964; one story relates that he died of a paralytic stroke suffered while having sex with a woman named Stefanetta. He may have died instead when the woman's husband defenestrated John or beat him to death with a hammer during the act.
j6EOj TIL Albuquerque's Minor League Baseball team is called the Isotopes and is so named due to the Simpsons episode where the Springfield Isotopes had a secret plan to move to Albuquerque
N7xx6 TIL about the death of Gloria Ramirez, also known as ‘The Toxic Lady’, whose blood’s exposure caused 5 medical staff to be hospitalized and 23 to experience symptoms