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TIL: Dubai has no address system, no zip codes, no area codes and no postal system. For a package to be sent properly, the sender would have to leave proper directions to the destination of said package.

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E10pp TIL that there is a group of sea wolves on Vancouver Island that can swim for miles and 90% of their diet is seafood. They primarily eat salmon but also forage on barnacles, lams, herring eggs, seals, and river otters.
m1OnY TIL Queen performed in apartheid South Africa in 1984, despite fan backlash and the United Nations’ cultural boycott of the country. They were fined by the British Musicians Union and blacklisted by the UN as a result.
9YGdB TIL that Betty White was the first woman to produce a national TV show, and the first woman to receive an Emmy nomination.
B05L TIL there is a “Zip Bomb” called 42.zip that when downloaded is only 42 Kilobytes, but actually contains 4,500,000 Gigabytes uncompressed. The file crashes computers when Anti-Virus software comes across it during a routine scan and tries to open the entire file, using up all the computer’s memory.
GBB4 TIL Salman Rushdie loves Super Mario World. He played the game religiously while he was in hiding, to the great annoyance of his wife.