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TIL that Iraq DID have WMDs, and Bush tried to cover it up.

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x6oyw TIL it took around 3 billion years for the very first single-celled organisms to eventually evolve into basic animal life forms. For comparison, dinosaurs were around for about 165 million years, modern humans have been around for 300,000 years.
nleY TIL That after a test preview for Apollo 13, an audience member said he hated the movie because it had a “typical Hollywood ending” and that the crew should have not survived.
klRe TIL 4 percent of Americans believe that shape-shifting “Lizard People” are in political control of the US and the world. 7 percent were unsure.
4kRWa TIL that DC published in 1999 the anthology comic Elseworlds 80-Page Giant, which had most of its copies recalled and destroyed because one story, titled "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter", had a baby Clark Kent climbing into a microwave.
rNVn1 TIL of Matthew Beard (Stymie Beard from the Little Rascals aka Our Gang) had 13 brothers and sisters. Because his paycheck helped the family to survive, his parents allowed him to rename one of his younger brothers. His parents subsequently allowed him to name his other siblings as they were born