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TIL Toto - Africa is about "A white boy that is trying to write a song on Africa, but since he's never been there, he can only tell what he's seen on TV"

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ADYMg TIL Valeant operating practice was gouging patients to beef up their returns while consolidating most of the pharmaceutical industry. Senators found the 30-year-old drug Syprine, which was acquired by Valeant in 2010, has seen a price increase of more than 3,000 per cent.
XNkE TIL the former leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, had the campaign slogan, “Do not expect any change from me.”
MeP57 TIL that actually honor killing violates islamic law
wj9Y TIL: A 480 inch tall “skyscraper” which defrauded investors thought was to be 480 feet tall was built in Texas in 1919 and it still stands.
D1DLV TIL that the Marvel character Howard the Duck, under threat of legal action, is forced to wear always pants. Disney was afraid people would confuse him for Donald Duck and demanded Marvel draw pants on Howard so that you could tell them apart.