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TIL the Nigerian government banned the Communist Party of Nigeria in 1966

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Zpw1a TIL That when cholera was appearing in London in the 1830s one prescribed cure was to inject turpentine and mutton stew up the anus
88MV TIL there is a man who has defused over 10,000 land-mines without pay.
OGJog TIL that Sir Patrick Stewart, of Star Trek fame, was accidentally cast in Dune (1984). Director David Lynch had wanted a different actor named Patrick Stewart, and had no idea who Sir Patrick was when he arrived on set to play Gurney Halleck.
D1Zvr TIL that there is a man called José Salvador Alvarenga who holds the Guinness World Record for longest time being lost at sea. He was lost for 438 days in a boat that was about 7 meters long and almost one meter wide. He survived by eating raw fish, turtles and birds and by drinking rain water.
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