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TIL Alec Guinness warned James Dean about his car one week before the deadly crash

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eaBE TIL that Saddam Hussein was distrustful of al-Qaeda and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime, refusing all requests from al-Qaeda to provide material or operational support
E1Bmo TIL: There is a Victorian time capsule under Cleopatra's Needle in London that contains photographs of the 12 best looking women in England
D1KQe TIL about the Frenchman Philippe Petit. In 1971 he was 45 minutes on a wire that was stretched between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. At one point, he even lay down on the wire.
OG8Na TIL: Julia Agripppina of Rome was the mother of Nero and orchestrated his rise to power through poison and politics. However, she lost her influence over him and he forced her out of the palace, stripped her powers and bodyguards, sent people to annoy her, and in 3 different accounts, killed her.
PYnNn TIL that a single species of spiders reproduces by a process known as “traumatic insemination”, in which the male sedates the female and proceeds to pierce her abdomen with one of its two penises to directly deposit sperm on its ovaries.