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TIL Saddam Hussein offered to step down to exile from the Iraqi government in 2003 prior to the invasion if he was allowed to keep USD $1 Billion

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L1p9 TIL: Horse-sized ducks lived in Australia 20,000 to 50,000 years ago.
jr5E TIL Delayed sleep phase disorder is often confused for insomnia. The person is able to sleep a full eight hours, just not when everyone else does.
Mel0A TIL that in 2015 a German student used his countries FOIA to request the answers to an upcoming final exam.
v8Yr TIL classical Greek and Roman architecture was actually polychromatic, meaning they were painted colorfully and intricately. This contradicts classical revivals that mimicked the stark stone structures that were left after the paint wore off.
lowO1 TIL: 90% of U.S. Dollar bills contain traces of cocaine. In Washington, D.C., cocaine was found on 95% of the banknotes analyzed.