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TIL the Baghdad Pact was a NATO type alliance between the UK, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan until 1979

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p8bL4 TIL of Japanese General and Poet, Nogi Maresuke, who took Port Arthur twice - from China (1894) and Russian (1904), sought permission from the emperor to kill himself as felt he lost too many soldiers in battle, was refused, so waited eight years and committed suicide right after the emperor died.
5YLgQ TIL the song 1985 isn't by Bowling for Soup. It was originally written and preformed by SR-71.
xV4X1 TIL that even though bigger animals have more cells (more cells=more mutations), they aren't more susceptible to cancer. It's called Peto's Paradox.
XyVD TIL that the little people that played Munchkins in the Wizard of Oz had drunken orgies in the hotel where they were staying, with an unholy assembly of pimps, hookers and gamblers. They needed police on about every floor to contain them.
XGkP TIL General Motors once hired prostitutes to attempt to seduce Ralph Nader in order to discredit him in his campaign to force the automobile industry to include seatbelts in its cars.