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Dubai is a global business hub and luxury tourist destination that boasts the world’s tallest building and a police force that drive supercars. So how did it get so rich?

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ZpGwo TIL the release of the trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV caused such a demand on Rockstar's servers that they crashed, causing fans to seek alternate links to the trailer. One user, as a prank, linked the wrong video on a forum. This is the origin of the Rickroll.
X0D6 TIL that Jimi Hendrix was kicked out of the army for masturbating while on duty
vOEB TIL that only 26% of men and 17% of women wash their hands after using the bathroom
ANGeo TIL that the first female US senator, Rebecca Latimer Felton, was also the last congressperson to ever own slaves.
0wOnA TIL The infamous scene, in Mel Gibson's film "the Patriot" depicting the herding noncombatant men, women and children into a church, and setting it on fire is based on the SS massacre of French villagers in Oradour-Sur-Glane in 1944. Nothing like this ever happened in the American Revolution.