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TIL that a tribe on an island in the Pacific worships Prince Philip as a divine being

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9wE0m TIL Céline Dion, along with her husband, filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against the Quebec tabloid Allô Vedettes, which claimed that the couple paid $5,001 to rent the swimming pool of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas so that Dion could sunbathe topless and Angélil could go skinny dipping.
EgVXp TIL Japan has their own Chinese-Japanese fried chicken called karaage (kara is Japanese for Tang as in the Tang Dynasty)
vkeB TIL that it is approximately 50% cheaper to drive an electric vehicle than it is to drive a vehicle that uses gasoline or diesel.
rRoXe TIL Windsocks are calibrated to visually show wind speed as well as wind direction. They are designed such that each inflated red/white stripe indicates a 3 knot increase in wind speed to a maximum of 15 knots.
jNZ5v TIL Kobe Beef in the U.S. is basically a huge sham