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TIL the Iraqi Communist Party is the oldest active party in Iraq, founded in 1934.

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41lg TIL a chemist cooked a batch of synthetic super-opiate and within months was taking the equivalent of 500 bags of heroin a day
VMREG TIL that clowns copyright their makeup by painting their faces on eggs. There is a clown egg registry in London.
VBpYG TIL there is a fish whose scientific name is Boops boops.
grMED TIL that The Secret Life of Pets 2 was released the same weekend as X-Men: Dark Phoenix and Pets outperformed X-Men, making it the first time an X-Men film did not top the box office the week of its release.
o1NE TIL: The man that invented the term anorexia nervosa was linked to the unsolved 1888 Whitechapel murders - Jack the Ripper.