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TIL that a 1969 SciFi novel accurately predicted the current state of world affairs of 2010 including a popular leader called President Obomi

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50dR TIL that in 1984 the French planted a bomb in London to test British security.
d8pE9 Today I learned, shortly after Steve Irwin's death, his father quit the family zoo to pursue animal conservation and continue Steve's dream. Leaving behind the bad relationship he had with Terry Irwin who had been pushing heavy commercialisation of the business.
8akeG TIL That Mao Zedong was actually a sexual predator
oByAY TIL with the US entry into WWI, German nationals were automatically classified "enemy aliens." Some 250,000 people in that category were required to register and carry registration cards. A total of 2,048 were incarcerated for the remainder of the war in two camps in Utah and Georgia.
Rrg4 TIL that the fact that shaving doesn’t make hair grow back thicker, darker, or faster was first proven in a clinical study in 1928 by Mildred Trotter.