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TIL George Michael have 10 no.1 hits songs on Billboard Hot 100 including 2 from Wham! (former band) and he wrote (except Careless Whisper with Andrew Ridgely) and produced them all by himself.

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78YMb TIL "Where In North Dakota Is Carmen Sandiego?" exists, developed by Broderbund and Minot Public Schools for the 1989 North Dakota Centennial. With 5,000 copies sold and only 3 known to have survived, it's considered "one of the rarest video games ever made."
RJBw TIL that Tu Youyou, the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize in medicine, developed a new malaria drug by finding a fever-fighting traditional herb mentioned in a 1,600-year-old text and then isolating the antimalarial compound in the plant.
9Yvo6 TIL Goldfinger was banned in Israel after it was reported that the actor playing Goldfinger, Gert Fröbe, was a former member of the Nazi party. The ban was lifted when it was discovered he helped to hide two Jews in his basement during the war.
y95l TIL We already have the world`s first Bionic Pop Star - Viktoria Modesta
jNgbj TIL that although Hong Kong has a lower total population density compared to Singapore (6,780 vs 7,792 per square kilometre), its net population density (i.e. the density of developed land) is twice as high (22,000 vs 11,000)