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TIL There’s a version of “Waterworld” nearly 4.5 hours long and it only aired on ABC once in 1998.

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D1QJp TIL an elite Zimbabwean brigade trained by North Korea and answerable only to Robert Mugabe killed around 20,000 civilians, while quelling an uprising.
PlBZ TIL the FBI Mined Grocery Store Records for Falafel Purchases to Find Iranian Terrorists
x9Bo TIL in 1986 Glasgow renamed the street of the Apartheid controlled South African consulate to Nelson Mandela Place which meant all of their correspondence had to contain the name of the political prisoner.
nWaJB TIL that the bear who inspired the movie “Cocaine Bear” was stuffed and is displayed in a Kentucky mall where it is used to officiate weddings. The mall claims the weddings are legally binding under Kentucky law.
N7ZpP TIL the single police officer of the regional town Birdsville, NSW (population: 100) patrols an area larger than Britain.