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

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xRX1 TIL Andrew Jackson was the first sitting president to almost be assassinated. After the first pistol failed to be discharged a second pistol was pulled, that one too misfired. The likelihood of both pistols misfiring was 120,000 to 1.
0mbp TIL: In 2006, Texas started arresting people for being drunk in bars
aRG9 TIL Zack Galifianakis bought an apartment for a homeless woman across the street from the laundromat she lived in. The story was made into a documentary movie
4XV8R TIL A 19 yr old pizza delivery boy helped save a man's life by performing CPR on the customer who was turning blue outside the house. When returning, he said, "I left a pizza boy and came back a pizza man." His tip was 25 bucks.
Om4R TIL over the age of 40, feet can grow over half a shoe size every 10 years.