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TIL Game of Thrones was responsible for attracting an estimated one in six of all international leisure visitors (roughly 350,000 tourists total) to Northern Ireland in 2019.

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0dZeN TIL one of the world's most-played musicians is Minoru Mukaiya, who wrote unique jingles for over 110 train stations across Japan.
WkOQd TIL of the Cokeville Elementary School Hostage Crisis. Where David Young stormed into a school with his wife, armed a bomb, and held 70+ students hostage. After 2 hours the bomb went off, but due to a series of coincidences, all hostages survived. Children later reported seeing angels.
xp05 TIL Harvard scientists have proven that detox diets or “juicing” doesn’t work… and that there is no basis in human biology that indicates fasting is a healthy way to detox the body
npNG TIL In 2014, Journalist Serena Shim died in ‘suspicious’ car crash two days after exposing ISIS facility at Turkish border
x6Jj1 TIL the oil behind poison ivy, urushiol, can also be cured and turned into a fine lacquer used in Asian decor