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TIL that Formula 1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen, nicknamed "The Ice Man", was so calm before his debut race in 2001 that he was asleep 30 minutes before the start

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k5Kd TIL In 17th century Italy conjoined twins were on trial for murder. Authorities arrested Lazarus after he stabbed a man for teasing his parasitic twin brother. Though he was sentenced to death the court let him go, finding that they could not execute him without killing his innocent conjoined twin.
oByjK TIL about Masoud, a black slave belonging to Fatimid Caliph Al Hakim. Al Hakim would wander the streets of Cairo looking for deceptive merchants, and when he discovered one he would have Masoud publicly sodomise the man.
epwMJ TIL Phil Collins can beatbox
gjP4 TIL Bill O'Reilly taunted a women’s health physician on the air for years as a “savage baby killer” until a viewer shot him dead in the pews of his church.
MeADa TIL that a chimpanzee community in Gombe National Park split into two factions and went to war with each other from 1974 to 1978. During the war, male chimps would team up to raid neighbouring territories and patrol the borders. If they found a lone chimp they would brutally kill them.