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TIL that country music is big in many parts of Africa

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wJV6 TIL of the Sonderkommando photographs - four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 by an inmate in Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers.
QJoye TIL that blue wine is actually a real thing! First produced in Spain, it is made from a mixture of white and red grapes, anthocyanine (devrived from the skin of red grapes) and indigotine for the colour and natural sweetners. It cannot actually be sold/marketed as wine in the European Union though.
yO5a TIL: When Charlie Sheen was being prosecuted for prostitution, Judge asked him why he would pay for sex, to which Charlie replied, “I don’t pay them for sex. I pay them to leave.”
WyO8 TIL it’s estimated Franz Kafka burned about 90% of his works. When he died he asked his friend to burn the remaining manuscripts (including The Trial) but his friend refused and instead turned them in for publishing.
Bg8Lr TIL Spacesbetweenwordsarearelativelyrecentdevelopmentinthehistoryofwrittenlanguage