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TIL That in the 1980's, Saddam Hussein received a key to the city of Detroit

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VBlKQ TIL that Detroit Tigers star and jokester Norm Cash was once caught in a rundown, so stopped running and made a timeout sign with his hands.
BgoZk TIL the techno nightclub "Toffler" in Rotterdam is a converted pedestrian tunnel, and features a hydraulic DJ system that moves back and forth throughout the night. It was named for futurist Alvin Toffler.
g80y TIL in 1976 Elvis spent ~$16,000 for a midnight return flight from Memphis to Denver to eat a Fools Gold sandwich which consists of one jar of Skippy creamy peanut butter, one jar of Smucker’s grape jelly, and one pound of lean bacon fried crisp.
BPZx TIL During a 2001 Seattle earthquake, a floral image was drawn in sand by a pendulum. Researchers believed it was formed by the initial 6.8 magnitude tremor & the outer lines were etched during the aftershock. They were going to make a mold of the pattern but a 3-year-old accidentally kicked it over
9YWLM TIL that Frank Sheeran, the mob hitman whose life is depicted in Martin Scorsese's film "The Irishman," participated in the Dachau Massacre, during which scores of SS concentration camp guards were executed en masse by U.S. G.I.s after the camp was liberated in April 1945.