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TIL Kim Jong-Il called his hairstyle the “speed battle cut”

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rRxgM TIL of leblouh, the practice of force-feeding young girls, in African countries where obesity is regarded as desirable. Older women called "fatteners" force the girls to consume enormous quantities of food and liquid, inflicting pain on them if they do not eat and drink.
9wxOG TIL The traditional Mexican hibiscus tea is called Jamaica simply because the main ingredient, the hibiscus plant, was originally brought over to Mexico from Jamaica
N7ne1 TIL That Mad Max: Fury Road had filming moved from the Broken Hill region of NSW to Namibia after unusual rainfall caused the desert landscape to bloom with wild flowers.
awbGb TIL that Samoa skipped a Friday
xvXk TIL that Bill Murray had no scripted lines in the movie Caddyshack. He improvised everything. “With the Dalai Lama scene, they just sort of tossed me in there – there wasn’t much of anything. I just took it and ran away with it…Improvising about golf was easy for me.”