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TIL that the second most translated book behind only the Bible is The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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7vm7 TIL India is building a fence around Bangladesh
makM TIL in the most extensive case of health care billing fraud in US Department of Justice history, in which 243 people were busted for fraudulent billing to the tune of $712M, one Doctor had billed for 205 hours in a single day.
Br70W TIL that the astronauts of Apollo couldn't get life insurance, so they signed items that their families could auction in case the landing went wrong
Lk6aV TIL that Bob Bergen, the actor who presently voices Porky Pig, has immense job security due to how difficult it is to nail the pig’s speech mannerisms. He had to study Mel Blanc’s speech patterns intensely to get the character just right.
kJlE5 TIL the BBC programme "The Black and White Minstrel Show," with white actors performing in blackface, aired for 20 years ending in 1978. Once, in 1967, as an experiment, the network aired a version where black actors performed in whiteface.