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TIL al-Qaida considered kidnapping Russel Crowe as part of a "cultural destabilisation plan" taking out high-profile Americans. Crowe is a Kiwi who grew up in Australia.

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1Q98 TIL nearly 70% of African American children and 60% of Hispanic children do not know how to swim. African-American children drown at a rate nearly three times higher than white children.
epDPJ TIL that some ants vomit on each other to say hello.
ZBlR TIL of Joseph Bazalgette, a civil engineer who built an extensive sewer network in London which was instrumental in curbing cholera, typhus and typhoid epidemics. Later he started cleansing Thames.
NXGxE TIL: 21 year old P.T. Barnum became a bit of a liberal celebrity after publishing an article excoriating a local church dignitary for the crime of “taking usury of an orphan boy." Which landed Barnum in jail for more than two months.
N568 TIL that most flat glass is made by floating a pool of molten glass above a pool of molten metal