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TIL Singing 'My Way' by Frank Sinatra is banned in Karaoke Bars in the Philippines because people have been murdered while singing it. It is unknown why.

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JYvj8 TIL of Afrihili, a constructed language designed in 1970 by Ghanaian historian K. A. Kumi Attobrah (Kumi Atɔbra) to be used as a lingua franca in all of Africa
ygPM TIL Queen Elizabeth does not hold a passport. Since all British passports are issued in the queen’s name, she herself doesn’t need one. She just has to say that she is the queen.
XEpJD TIL the Leningrad siege in WW2 has been classified as an genocide by some historians. American estimates the death toll was higher than combined american and British losses in the war, "The Siege of Leningrad killed more civilians than bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined."
RKE9 TIL The first person to say “motherfucker” on live TV was Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane in 1969
e1BD TIL the FBI seized a server that was being used to host child pornography and ran it for two more weeks. Defendants caught in the sting argued the FBI did a better job hosting a child porn site than whoever originally ran it: The site’s average weekly visitors jumped from 11,000 to 50,000