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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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ZNYR TIL that Allied forces during WWII battled for two straight days on the island of Kiska and suffered over 300 casualties only to find out that the Japanese had abandoned the island two weeks prior to the invasion.
rloo TIL “Jim Wilson” is the American Airlines code for coffin or cadaver shipments
KY064 Today I learned that Al green made more royalties from the Big Mouth Milly Bass toy than any other for his song ‘take me to the river’
VMJ8D TIL: Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish friar sent to Auschwitz for hiding jews; offered his life and volunteered to die in the place of another camp inmate who was about to executed, who cried that he had a ‘wife’ and a ‘child’. Maximilian on the other hand, had no family. In 1982 he was made into a Saint.
R58p6 TIL Wrocław Poland has Hundreds of Little Brass Gnomes Throughout the City