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TIL women in Iraq were far more safe, educated and free under Saddam’s regime than today

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Ooe71 TIL During the production of the music video for Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer, Peter Gabriel had to lay under a sheet of glass for 16 hours while the stop motion effects were animated one frame at a time.
E1Jjd TIL there was a press event from 2001 where over twenty military, intelligence, government and scientific witnesses came forward and discovered at least 57 extraterrestrial species.
wglM TIL that in 2005, security guards at Australia’s Parliament House were banned from calling people ‘mate’. The ban lasted one day.
DDrV TIL that the scar on Tina Fey’s face happened when she was five year old. She was playing in the front yard and a complete stranger came up and cut her face with a knife.
Q7NL TIL that papercuts hurt so much because the cut often bleeds very little or not at all, leaving the skins pain receptors open to the air.