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TIL that Oman has a strong tradition of Scottish bagpipe music, owing to their Sultan having served in a Scottish regiment of the British Army

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9wAlm TIL about Hitomi Soga-Jenkins, a Japanese woman who was abducted to North Korea with her mother in 1978. Her mother disappeared and was never seen again. She was given a Korean name and married an American defector. They had two daughters. The family returned to Japan in 2004 where they live today.
XW6 TIL IKEA is an acronym, a charity, and depicted the first gay couple in an ad (and more).
NXpmE TIL between 1970 and 1976 alone, between 25 and 50 percent of Native American women were sterilized.
J1vaQ TIL Lightning can heat the air it passes through to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5 times hotter than the surface of the sun)
XE5yk TIL that the drummer who schooled Kevin in The Office was discovered in a YouTube video titled “This drummer is at the wrong gig”