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TIL Qatar is the only country that begins with a Q and Iraq is the only country that ends with one

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epKRb TIL about Abbess Mariam Soulakiotis or "Mother Rasputin", who was a serial killer active from (1939-1950) she would starve, beat, and condemn victims to tuberculosis-ridden cells. Authorities first arrested her for export of olive oil to Cyprus and the import of tires. Her victim total was 27-177.
XEYvD TIL Lyndon B. Johnson gave interviews from the bathroom because he didn't want the conversation to stop [said presidential biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin]
yQVkX TIL the first British pilot to be shot down in WWII was in a friendly fire incident three days into the war
vd7K TIL There is a Japanese arcade game where in response to irritating events you hit a physical table and then flip it when the time is right.
O6w7 TIL medical doctor Donald Unger cracked the knuckles of his left hand every day for more than sixty years, but he did not crack the knuckles of his right hand. No arthritis or other ailments formed in either hand, earning him the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine