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TIL that Ilona Staller, aka Cicciolina, a former porn star and Italian MP, offered to have sex with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in return for peace in the region. She first made the offer while in office, renewed it in October 2002, and extended the same proposal to Osama bin Laden in April 2006

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9bvG TIL that in 1944, on the verge of the Liberation of Paris, Hitler ordered it’s governor to leave it a “pile of rubble,” and destroy all religious and historical monuments. The Governor refused, saving Paris.
VRZB TIL Genghis Khan once sent a 500 man caravan to establish trade ties, only to receive nothing in return and to have the whole caravan executed. Genghis Khan responded to this act of greed by executing the Shah responsible by pouring molten silver into his eyes and ears.
8MMG TIL there is a inflatable space habitat in earth orbit since 2006 to prove that it works
yVX4V TIL J.W Boucher, a Canadian, managed to get enlisted into the Union army during the american civil war on his 3rd attempt after he initialy got rejected as too young to serve. In 1917, at the age of 72, he lied about his age and managed to get enlisted into WW1, likely the oldest person to serve
AN807 TIL that IQ is not the only quotient to measure intelligence there are more like AQ(Adversity quotient), EQ(Emotional quotient), TQ(Technical qoutient) and more