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TIL Lou Bega, famous for his version of Mambo No. 5, is German

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dDnV7 TIL, in a 1962 operation known as 'Starfish Prime', the United States detonated a nuclear bomb at high altitude, ~900 miles south of Hawai'i. The electromagnetic pulse from the detonation caused bright auroras to appear in the atmosphere over a large area of the Pacific Ocean.
E16Ew TIL the greatest pirate of all time is a woman! She commanded over 300 ships with around 40,000 sailors. When finally defeated, she negotiated her way to freedom and became a casino and brothel owner.
OGNl7 TIL that Italy had a king during Benito Mussolini’s entire reign. While he advised Mussolini not to enter the war, he ignored the regime’s abuses until the Allied invasion; he then kicked Mussolini out of office and sided with the Allies. He later went into exile and the monarchy was abolished.
ADjYB TIL studies show people who are falling in love and those who suffer from drug addiction share similar brain chemistry. This reasoning has led to using Oxytocin - "the Love hormone" - as a successful treatment for drug addiction.
p8Wmb TIL that a 'creole' is a stable language developed from mixing other languages together suddenly (no, not just French/English - any pair of languages), while a 'pidgin' is simplified bridging language between two languages.