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TIL “Waka Waka,” a song by Shakira that topped charts worldwide, was originally performed by Golden Sounds, a Cameroonian band founded by members of Cameroon’s presidential guard.

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7rZX7 TIL a woman in Mexico named Ines Ramirez performed a C-section on herself after hours of painful contractions. Fearing that her baby would be stillborn, she drank 2 cups of high-proof alcohol and used a kitchen knife to make the incision. Both the mother and the baby survived.
VBVvm TIL that a former Kellogg factory worker filmed himself urinating on a cereal conveyor belt at a facility in Memphis, Tennesse, only to upload a video of the incident two years later. Kellogg only learned of the incident after the video was uploaded.
yQNpX TIL that after inviting John Ratcliffe (villain figure in Pocahontas) for a friendly gathering, the Powhatan Indians instead tied him to a stake, removed pieces of skin from his entire body with mussel shells and tossed them into the fire as he watched.
ADR1a TIL that must of us can recognize the lower case loop-tail form of ‘g’, but for the life of us, most of us can’t draw it.
l7x8G TIL all foreign and domestic students can study for free at public German universities regardless of what country you're from!