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TIL that in Iran, the US is the “Great Satan”, the USSR was the “Lesser Satan”, and Israel is the “Little Satan”.

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x6A5D TIL that Nobuo Oda is the longest serving death row inmate in Japan. He was sentenced to death in 1968 for killing a man during a robbery in 1966. While Oda has admitted to robbery, he has denied starting the fire with a stove. He is currently a prisoner in the Fukuoka Detention House.
wL55J TIL the founder of lingerie company Victoria's Secret sold the business for just $1 million five years after founding it, and later commited suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge as the firm went on to produce billion dollar revenues for the new owner.
xV8Qo TIL a West Virginia town asked the Soviet Union for foreign aid to rebuild a bridge
wlnM TIL: President Andrew Jackson was involved in as many as 100 duels. He was shot in the chest in 1806 and took a bullet in the arm in a bar fight with Missouri Sen. Thomas Hart Benton in 1813. Most were to defend his wife’s honor.
e0Oo5 TIL that the blanket toss game that exists in schools as the parachute game was originally used by native Alaskan hunters. These hunters would sit on an animal skin and be tossed into the air to spot game and whales out at sea to hunt.