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TIL American businesses supplied Saddam Hussein with the chemical/biological agents used in the Kurdish Genocide.

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5YDNB Today I learned Dawson's Creek is Blacker than 90210, What's Blacker? Episode 1
M5G0 TIL that if players pirated the video game “Game Dev Tycoon” - a game where the goal is to create and sell video games for profit - their in-game games get massively pirated which renders it unplayable.
a8VxZ TIL Australian band, Men At Work were sued over their song "Down Under" for similarities to an Australian nursery rhyme "Kookaburra".
jNgEN TIL the widely taught tongue map that different parts of the tongue are responsible for different tastes is a myth.
78E0L TIL: "Pretty Boy" Floyd, one of America's most notorious bank robbers, was known for destroying mortgage papers during bank heists, so freeing hundreds of individuals from property debt.