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TIL Blondie's music video for the 1981 song Rapture featured Jean-Michel Basquiat as Grandmaster Flash did not show up for the video shoot and Basquiat was hired instead.

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xbR7 TIL The conviction rate of Palestinians in Israeli military courts is 99.74%. Of the 9,542 cases, only 25 were fully acquitted (2011, source: Haaretz, Israeli newspaper).
vMvD TIL Iceland has such a small population that they have an anti-incest app so you don’t end up hooking up with a family member on a night out.
Me8Rm TIL that the word 'Eskimo' is considered derogatory and was a word used by non-native colonizers to refer to people living in the Arctic regions
w78M TIL that Pakistan’s parliament is the only parliament in the world to be fuelled solely by solar power.
P1gow TIL that the Boston Tea Party was not called that until the early 1820s. Before that it was referred to as The Destruction of the Tea.