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TIL Saddam Hussein’s last words were “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad-” before the executioner let the floor out from beneath the gallows, cutting him off midsentence.

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ARNl TIL that in Toronto, 1933, an amateur baseball game broke out into a massive race riot when a group of Nazi sympathizers, protesting the Jewish players, unveiled a crude Swastika flag. “A crowd of more than 10,000 citizens, excited by cries of ‘Heil Hitler’ became suddenly a disorderly mob.”
VMRok TIL Humans have consumed 9.2b tons of plastic. Out of it, 6 billion will never meet a recycling bin, and there’s no infrastructure to deal with it. That’s equivalent to the weight of one billion elephants.
QXmL TIL Nestlé aggressively distributes free formula samples in developing countries until the supplementation has interfered with the mother’s lactation. After that the family must continue to buy the formula since the mother is no longer able to produce milk on her own.
xeJo TIL That we associate bunnies with Easter because it was once widely believed they were hermaphrodites, able to reproduce without losing their virginity. This lead to an association with the virgin Mary, as well as Jesus.
l7v8V TIL: The average person misplaces around 9 objects a day. By the time we turn 60, we will have misplaced 200,000 items and spent 6 solid months looking for them.