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TIL in the Brazilian translation of Star Wars, Count Dooku’s name was changed to Dookan because in portuguese “Dooku” can be roughly translated to “from the ass” or even “I do anal”

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abXN TIL that from its discovery in 1947 until 2007, there were only 14 confirmed human cases of Zika infection worldwide. In the past two years there have been an estimated 1.5 million infections in Brazil alone.
x7N5 TIL that after a woman’s lung collapsed on a flight, two doctors performed surgery with the aircraft’s medical kit, along with a coat hanger, Sellotape, a knife and fork, a bottle of water, and five star brandy for disinfectant. The woman felt better after ten minutes.
laxB TIL that the Happy Birthday song was placed into the public domain in September, 2015.
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