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TIL that Saddam Hussein was distrustful of al-Qaeda and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime, refusing all requests from al-Qaeda to provide material or operational support

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v6L4 TIL Malcolm X, then Malcolm Little, was elected class president by an almost all-white class in middle school.
Y7BQG TIL: North American Water and Power Alliance. A 1950s plan to get water from Alaska and Canada to the US South West using canals, reservoirs and nuclear power pumping stations. Estimated cost of $100B in 1975 ($500B today's dollars).
bPEj TIL Reese’s Pieces aren’t made with peanut butter. Instead it’s a fudge like filling flavored like peanuts.
QJQyX TIL cars made in the 1950s often had a loud and resonant 'country horn', and a quieter, polite 'city horn'
69m6Q TIL that the majority of psychological research has been found to have a “WEIRD bias,” meaning that test subjects were from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies. As much as 96% of data comes from countries with only 12% of the world's population.