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TIL Saddam Hussein's son Uday murdered his bodyguard at a party in front of horrified guests

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XDg6 TIL that after many publishers claimed the original Harry Potter novel “was too long for a children’s book”, Nigel Newton, chairman of Bloomsbury Publishing agreed to read it as a favor, but tossed it to the side, only for his 8 year-old daughter to find it, read it, and demand more.
xWoD TIL that production on 2014 biblical epic film Noah was delayed due to ‘heavy rain and flooding’ on location from Hurricane Sandy
R5oj TIL that Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, Totoro) was set to animate the Little Nemo movie, but left the project. This amazing test pilot still exists, though!
QmLM TIL a Chinese linguist created an entire 97 word essay using the same word, “shi”, only varying in tones, to prove why Chinese needs to be written using logograms and not phoenetically
Ly59 TIL The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was the result of an FBI sting operation. FBI agents secretly supplied informant Emad Salem with bomb making materials. Despite being assured by the FBI that the real bomb was replaced with a fake, the attack was successfully carried out.