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TIL about a beauty contest held in Singapore in 1998, which awarded 60% of the marks for knowledge of the internet.

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4Xb0R TIL that "Love Me Do" by The Beatles was their debut single originally released in the UK on Oct 5th, 1962. It peaked at # 17 in the charts that year.
rRyVo TIL that ZONE-tan, the mascot of ZONE-SAMA, was voiced by a Filipina named Cassandra Ford (who is also one of the founders of a band called The Vincent Black Shadow)
Vj0G TIL that Russian scientists were able to revive an arctic flower, extinct for 32,000 years, from a seed that’s been borrowed by an ice age squirrel, buried in Siberian permafrost.
yVdv8 TIL in the US there was an Italian and Jewish mafia conglomerate called the NATIONAL CRIME SYNDICATE, and its enforcement wing was called MURDER, INC
VMA1Z TIL After Michael Jackson's hair caught fire in 1984 he founded a burn center. “I wanted to do something because I was so moved by the other burn patients I met...” He suffered painful burns, but hospital staff remember him spending much of his time visiting and comforting other patients