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TIL that the first president of Zimbabwe was President Banana

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Xb5k TIL that “Here Be Dragons” is the “Beam Me Up Scotty” / “Play It Again, Sam” of cartography. The phrase doesn’t actually appear on any old maps.
O5GY TIL: Due to differences in calendars, it is currently 2070 in Nepal and 2006 in Ethiopia.
VMd8p TIL a gang of brilliant French thieves used a vacuum cleaner to steal $800K from a bunch of grocery stores. The stores used a pneumatic tube system to convey their cash payments to their safes. They broke in and used the vacuum cleaner to suck the money out of the store vaults.
x8A0 TIL the government of Germany does not recognize Scientology as a religion. Scientology has been labelled officially as a ‘abusive business masquerading as a religion’.
QN4M6 TIL that, despite it being widely reported, Bruce Willis never sold the rights to use his likeness with deep fake technology. A Russian Advert company made it up and illegally used him in a commercial.