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TIL that Haitian Hip-Hop artist, Wyclef Jean, mishandled 16 million dollars of his charity for the Haiti earthquake in 2010

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x9mw TIL in 2003 the Polynesian island country of Niue became the world’s first “WiFi nation”, offering free Internet access throughout the country.
g849 TIL: In 2011, the US Attorney General personally asked David Simon to create a 6th Season of HBO’s The Wire. His response? Sure – as soon as you end the war on drugs.
mxbax TIL that “Tuvalu is sinking” is the local catch-all phrase used in the small island archipelago due to the changing environment
mALY TIL Flowers were traditionally used at funerals to mask the stench of decomposition.
X04RD TIL that the famous James Bond theme (first heard in 1962 in Dr. No) was source of a long running dispute between John Barry and Monty Norman. Norman had originally written a song for a musical adaptation of V. S. Naipaul's novel A House for Mr Biswas which was the inspiration.