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TIL That there are many living descendants of the prophet Mohammed, including the current King of Jordan Abdullah II.

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GY6P7 TIL All foreign citizens visiting Tibet must be in a tour group and there are no direct international flights from foreign countries to Tibet, except for Nepal, which borders Tibet
1aK7X TIL that one of Lou Gehrig's nicknames was "Biscuit Pants"
xVl5k TIL in 'The Shawshank Redemption', Red was serving a life sentence for three murders. He killed his wife by cutting the brake cables on her car. The resulting crash also killed a neighbor and their child.
gMYLD TIL that the most powerful explosion in the universe (that has been witnessed by humans) occurred when a supermassive black hole in the Ophiuchus cluster flared up and released roughly 100 billion times more energy than the Sun will produce in it’s lifetime.
xVD4g TIL There are at least 3 companies operating under some form of the name WHATABURGER or What-A-Burger. There is the Texas based company, Virginia based, and a third based in the Carolinas. They sued each other in the early 2000's and a result of the lawsuits was that all 3 could keep using the name.