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TIL that Saddam Hussein was forced to watch his cameo in South Park repeatedly while in prison. The creators of the show were given a signed photo of him afterwards

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b9P44 TIL that nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America are bots
Eg6vo TIL of the 'Petticoat Revolution' of 1916 in which seven women led secret campaigns to gain control of the town of Umatilla, OR
OG064 TIL That some birds participate in what’s known as “Mafia Behavior”, where a bird will lay an egg in another birds nest and if that bird rejects their egg/chick, the parasitic bird may return and kill the host’s chicks or destroy their nest.
6EgJQ Jupiter is made of mostly hydrogen and helium gas. So, trying to land on it would be like trying to land on a cloud here on Earth. There's no outer crust to break your fall on Jupiter. Just an endless stretch of atmosphere. The big question, then, is: Could you fall through one end of Jupiter and out the other? It turns out, you wouldn't even make it halfway.
ANWXg TIL: Engineers make perfect steel spheres by filling it with water and then detonating a bomb inside it.