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TIL the nation of Liberia's ship registry is administered by a private American company in Virginia.

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QJkLp TIL the University of Phoenix campus in Detroit has a record low 10% graduation rate.
rN6wd TIL about Paul Pena, a blind blues musician who taught himself Tuvan [AKA Mongolian] throat singing. He then traveled to the fringes of Mongolia to compete in a throat singing competition in the 90s and won.
168MO TIL about Dafen oil painting village, a suburb in Shenzhen, China, nicknamed the capital of mass art knock-offs, being a zone with many workshops dedicated to reproduce famous paintings of west and east, specifically, oil paintings but they made personal works for people too.
LkJkv TIL that in 1938, a man in prison trained a cockroach to smuggle him cigarettes. He was later released because the warden said "a man who can train a cockroach doesn't belong in prison".
xVDDD TIL of "yellow journalism" which present little or no legitimate, well-researched news while instead using eye-catching headlines.