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TIL that Sarah Kyolaba; fifth wife of Idi Amin and former gogo dancer in Uganda's Revolutionary Suicide Jazz Band left Amin and ran a restaurant and later a hair salon in London until her death.

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N08P TIL that Del the Funky Homosapien wrote the verse for the Gorillaz song “Clint Eastwood” by the following the instructions from the book “How to Write a Hit Record”.
vPjnK TIL that privacy debate suffers from a narrow understanding of the problem. The ways in which privacy invasions can cause harm to law-abiding individuals are often ignored, underestimated or even deliberately concealed, leading to the widespread (but misguided) “I have nothing to hide” attitude.
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