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TIL King Zog of Albania survived 55 assasination attempts

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ADQYd TIL that red-haired people were considered poisonous in the middle ages. People planned to melt the fat from them and use it as poison.
nWJ7Y TIL about Deep Lake, a lake in Antarctica that has such high salinity, 10 times saltier than the oceans, that it never freezes, even in the winter. Conditions in the lake are so hostile that almost nothing can survive there.
BkjL TIL Dwayne Johnson was set to star in a movie about Hawaiian warrior-king Kamehameha, but was pulled because he’s Samoan, with the producer saying, “It would be a great taboo for the part to go to a nationality that was a fierce enemy of the Hawaiians during that time.”
j6rBX TIL Poland syndrome is the name of a breast deformation, and not the practice of attacking countries while claiming to "shoot back"
rRJbo TIL the famous Las Vegas Black Book of persons excluded from entering casinos due to their history of excessive "winning" is now online.