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TIL the children's book The Iron Giant was based on was written by Ted Hughes, the husband of Sylvia Plath.

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WJOo TIL in pre-modern Europe, Outlaw or Outlawry, was one of the harshest punishments available and put the criminal outside of any legal protections, subject to persecution, murder etc. by anybody. It was considered a death sentence but not carried out by the state.
b9BME TIL Saddam Hussein commissioned a calligrapher to write a copy of the Quran using his blood as ink. The 605 page book contains roughly 27 liters of his blood and is kept in a mosque in Iraq behind 3 vault doors.
P1mDJ TIL that the idea for the original Final Destination (2000) film came after its co-writer, Jeffrey Reddick, read a story about a mother of a passenger who had a premonition for her daughter's flight, convincing her to switch flights and avoid her initial plane, which ended up crashing.
Z8kmG TIL that Bangladesh and the U.S. state of Illinois are approximately the same size in area (57,000 sq miles or 149,000 km2) yet Bangladesh has a population of 162,000,000 people, and Illinois has 12,000,000.
WknQB TIL a study in 2017 found that while break-ups take a more immediate emotional toll on women, men often never fully recover — they simply move on.