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DQ17p TIL that Saddam built a palace in ancient city of Babylon which later became a US military base
4XGG5 TIL that the phrase “God helps those who help themselves” is not stated verbatim in the Bible. The phrase is not even biblical in origin.
D1AjD TIL A group of feral cats is called a destruction
jNnyQ TIL that while most tinnitus is psychosomatic, there are rare types called objective tinnitus in which the ear canal is producing a noise that can be heard by a third party. This type is often curable.
yVZBJ Today I learned that Ben Affleck's first television role was as C.T. Granville on the educational television program The Voyage of the Mimi which ran on PBS in 1984