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TIL South African mercenaries were hired in the fight against Boko Haram

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wL4rY TIL while the Icelandic airline Loftleiðir was only allowed to operate flights to and from Iceland, they managed to circumvent the rule by having their USA-continental Europe flights covered by two tickets: one for flying to Iceland, and the other for flying from Iceland to the mainland.
0wGP1 TIL South Park's debut in 1997 was such a ratings success that it made Comedy Central one of the fastest-growing cable channels in the US at that time. The number of households that had Comedy Central jumped from 9.1 million in 1997 to 50 million in 1998.
myvY TIL in 1980 William Bergstrom arrived at Binion’s Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada with two suitcases: one containing $777,000 in cash, the other empty. He placed the full amount on a single bet of dice which he won and packed the winnings in the empty suitcase
15KD TIL Almost 700 Hours of recorded interviews of former Black slaves are publicly online available at the Library of Congress. They sing songs and discuss their feelings on slavery, freedom, their families and slavemasters.
vPK74 TIL Half-Life 2 has a burnt corpse model textured using photos of a real dead and badly burnt body