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TIL that while the American Revolutionary War started due to unjust treatment of Americans, hostilities were first opened by their oppressors

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4aN6 TIL The Quran does not explicitly forbid images of Muhammad
X0oV6 TIL about Jackie Mitchell, a 17-year-old female pitcher for the Chattanooga Lookouts Class AA minor league baseball team. During an exhibition game against the New York Yankees in 1931, Mitchell struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in succession.
M71lV TIL that Australian director George Miller worked as an emergency physician while making short films. The prevalence of vehicle accidents and Australia’s enthusiasm for automobiles inspired him to write and film “Mad Max”.
jN8BE TIL that all the people on Earth could fit, standing shoulder-to-shoulder, inside the 500 square miles of the city of Los Angeles.
5YlgQ TIL of the "Blood Quran" a Quran that was written in the blood of Saddam Hussein. The book is a problem for Islamic scholars because they can't agree over what should be done with it. It's a sin to write the Quran in blood but it's also a sin to destroy copies of the Quran. They're stumped.