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TIL Omar bin Laden (Osama’s son) was denied citizenship in Britain in 2007 because “Omar failed to provide his father’s permanent address”

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16BQO TIL about Snuffy's Parents Get A Divorce, an unaired episode of Sesame Street that was produced in '92. After tests showed that young viewers were confused by the episode and did not understand important concepts about divorce, the producers decided not to air it, despite the investment they'd made.
9lPm TIL that if you have pink eye, a few drops of fresh breast milk can cure it almost instantly.
Yppex TIL children as young as three are able to recognize the same 'cute' infantile facial features (a set of traits known as the 'baby schema') across different species. They also find images of adult dog faces cuter than both adult cats and human faces.
ANRXx TIL that an English chemist named James Price claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold. When asked by members of the Royal Society to perform the experiment in front of credible witnesses, he reluctantly agreed, only to drink poison in front of them instead.
x6oZD TIL about Dick Rocket who is CEO of a space company