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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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Orwe TIL in Mandarin Chinese, the word for “kangaroo” translates literally to “bag rat”
Z8DYa TIL Hitler used a propaganda technique called the "Big lie". The use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously"
wLeb6 TIL about the Crow Paradox. Crows have no difficulty telling humans apart, and even hold grudges against individuals, but for humans it's almost impossible to recognize individual crows
JWXV TIL a man won a lawsuit against a Murdoch paper because, although he did have a WWII S&M prison camp sex orgy, he did not have a NAZI-themed WWII S&M prison camp sex orgy as they claimed.
axY9 TIL the Burj Khalifa, the tallest man-made structure in the world, is named after a living person– the President of the United Arab Emirates