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TIL Patrick Stewart didn't know who Sting was when they were working on Dune together, and when he asked him what band he played for and Sting answered "The Police," Stewart responded, "You're in a police band?"

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GAVZ7 TIL about the earthquake so powerful it adjusted the north pole by 25mm, changed Earth's shape by 1 part in 10 billion consequently increasing its rotation and shortening a day by 2.68 microseconds.
ORBL TIL the Black Death arrived in Norway on a ghost ship that just so happened become beached near a major port. Even tho all the crew had died the surviving rats and flees managed to spread the disease throughout the country and later to Sweeden and Russia.
EPBW TIL that 53% of people in Fiji have no access to safe drinking water, despite the Fiji Water bottling company’s activity there.
5VgQB TIL Dr. Henry Kissinger was the first honourary member of the Harlem Globetrotters
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