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TIL that in 2015, Qatar has paid spanish fans to cheer for the Qatar national team in the 2015 handball world championships

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GY7mE TIL of Cannibal Island - a small island in Siberia where the Soviet Union forcibly deported 6,000 citizens. They were abandoned with few supplies and only flour for food. Disease and cannibalism quickly ran rampant and after 13 weeks, 2/3 of the original deportees were dead.
pkvb TIL Between 2012 and April 2014, there were two bands named Queensryche performing the same material and utilizing the band’s brand due to a lawsuit between the lead singer and rest of the band.
GMej TIL that British banking giant HSBC admitted to laundering billions of dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels and violating a host of important banking laws (from the Bank Secrecy Act to the Trading With the Enemy Act), but there were no criminal charges and no one went to prison.
MmyA TIL that in Los Angeles in 1994, after an eathquake-induced power outage, calls came into emergency centers about a “giant silvery cloud.” It was the Milky Way.
GAV6g TIL that the famed designer Yves Saint Laurent was actually born and raised in the city of Oran, Algeria when it still a French colony. His childhood home was bought by a local man and is now a museum dedicated to his sketches and early life