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TIL in 1990, a 15-yo Kuwaiti girl testified to US Congress that Kuwaiti babies were being taken out of their incubators by Iraqi soldiers and left to die. It was later revealed that she was the daughter of an ambassador & that her testimony was part of a PR campaign to sell the war to the public.

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Z8L0v TIL that former NBA player Steve Nash was an accomplished chess player at a young age but quit in the fourth grade after making an opponent cry
Or9L TIL In Kyrgyztan, men still marry their women the old-fashioned way: by abducting them off the street and forcing them to be their wife.
Y7mYP TIL Self made millionaire Harris Rosen adapted a Florida neighborhood called Tangelo park, cur the crime rate in half, and increased the high school graduation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone free daycare and all high school graduate scholarships.
JY0V TIL in Germany they teach kids how to hide a boner…on TV!
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