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TIL Muammar Gaddafi was a fan of Beethoven and read books like Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Outsider

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KOXQw TIL Ed O'Neill (the father in the Married with Children) is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt.
pYZGO TIL that the Tower of B*bel was built to avoid a second fl**d by humans who all spoke a single language. As a result, they were punished by being scattered and made to speak different languages, so they could no longer understand each other
VBp6G TIL a woman named Sara Jane Moore tried to kill U.S. president Gerald Ford. She was in prison for 32 years. When asked about her crime in an interview, Moore stated, "I am very glad I did not succeed. I know now that I was wrong to try."
OojLg TIL that the Judgement of Solomon has parallels in many other traditions such as India (where the Buddha asks to two mothers to tug war the child's body)
GJvj TIL During the filming of Titanic an angry crew member put the drug PCP into the soup that James Cameron and various other crew ate one night, which sent more than 50 people to the hospital. The person behind the poisoning was never caught.