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TIL Al Goldstein an American pornographer, In 1989, ran a full page ad in "Screw" offering $1 million for the assassination of the Ayatollah Khomeini, in response to Khomeini's fatwa against novelist Salman Rushdie for allegedly blaspheming Islam.

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v1a7r TIL that Pluto was not only named after the god of the underworld, but the first two letters were a homage to Percival Lowell, the scientist who initiated the search for a celestial body beyond Neptune.
1KjX TIL A Hippo must stay moist, because if its skin dries out, it will crack. Its skin also secretes a red fluid that is thought to be an antibiotic, sunscreen and skin moisturizer. People once thought that the red secretions were blood and that hippos sweat blood.
o6M8 TIL that the shortest scientific paper ever published had zero words. A clinical psychologist Dennis Upper attempted an experiment: to combat writer’s block by writing about it. His experiment failed, but no results are results all the same, and the paper was published.
VMm0D TIL: That having Red hair and Blue eyes is the rarest color combination in humans. Less than 2 percent have red hair and around 17 percent of people have blue eyes. Blue eyes and Red hair? 0.17 percent chance.
PYVEn TIL Claw machines are rigged,and the owner can program them to drop a toy after it gets picked up, giving you the illusion of near-success.