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TIL there is a plot of land between Egypt and Sudan claimed by no country.

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p8lbZ TIL “Pop goes the Weasel” is about booze. Pop is English slang for pawning and weasel is for a suit. The Eagle was a London pub. “Up and down the city road, in and out of The Eagle, that’s the way the money goes, pop goes the weasel” means drinking until you need to pawn things to buy more booze.
W7Jjo TIL A man staged his own kidnapping from his home in front of his terrified wife by two masked men with guns just to go out drinking with his friends without his wife knowing. He returned home two days later and claimed that his captors released him.
4apw TIL The Big Lebowski secured rights for the song Dead Flowers (closing credits) when rights owner and Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein, who was asking $150,000 heard the line “I hate the fuckin’ Eagles, man!” Klein stood up and said, ‘That’s it, you can have the song!’
16RR7 TIL Indonesia wants to move the capital to a new city
e0Ojn TIL that the US has a submarine base in a lake in Idaho.