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TIL throat singers may travel in the countryside looking for the right geography in which to perform throat singing

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5ERD TIL Trajan was the first and only Roman emperor to set foot on the shores of the Persian Gulf.
69w4l TIL that Idiocracy grossed less than $500,000 at the international box office, primarily because 20th Century Fox refused to screen it to critics or market it at all.
Br4ke TIL that while mustangs are often referred to as wild horses, because they are descended from once-domesticated horses, they are actually feral horses.
OGv0R TIL that the Louis Armstrong's What A Wonderful World didn't chart in the US until it was used on the Soundtrack of "Good Morning, Vietnam" in 1987, 17 years after his death. The president of the record label hated it and refused to promote it in the US. In the UK it charted at #1 in 1967.
xVMbg TIL to get around a law forbidding state banishment, Georgia judges can ban criminals from 158 of the 159 state counties. They send people to Echols County which is so boring, criminals choose to leave the state rather than live there