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TIL Osama Bin Laden was scammed out of $1.5 Million while trying to buy weapons-grade uranium

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GAGM7 TIL of Thomas Higgins, the first person to be posthumously elected as a UK Member of Parliament. He died from a heart attack on election night, after polling had closed, but before the result had been declared.
neOOb TIL Fentanyl is 100 times more potent than heroin, is measured in millionth of grams by doctors, and a dose the size of a grain of sand will kill you
yVZdp TIL that Alien was based on a comedy film written by its screenwriter Dan O'Bannon called Dark Star, featuring an alien that was just a painted beach ball with rubber claws attached. He eventually started imagining what Dark Star would look like as a horror film.
kEX7 TIL: In 1954, famous rhythm-and-blues singer Johnny Ace died after jokingly pointing a gun toward himself and accidentally shooting himself with it. His last words were “It’s okay! Gun’s not loaded… see?”
b6W5p TIL that the Panama Canal is actually North to South from the Atlantic side, and the Atlantic entrance is 37 km West of the Pacific entrance...so, you actually go West to East when taking the canal from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.