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TIL Saddam Hussein was awarded the key to the city of Detroit in the 1980s

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9YBQm TIL 749 US Servicemen were killed in England in 1944's Top-Secret Exercise Tiger
BgZoL TIL the most honored rank of English chivalry is the Order of Garter. The unique item is worn on the left leg below the knee. Embroidered on the blue velvet is the motto Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense (Shame on Him Who Thinks Evil of It).
v1XPR TIL after the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 the debris field stretched from Texas through Louisiana, and the search team was so thorough they found nearly 84,000 pieces of the shuttle, as well as a number of murder victims and a few meth labs.
Wkkjo TIL about "world's humblest president" José Mujica, former president of Uruguay, who drove a $1800 VW Beetle to work, donated most of his presidential salary to charities for the poor, and opted to lived on his farm instead of the presidential palace.
pQvN TIL that candle flames contains millions of tiny diamonds, as they contain all four known forms of carbon.