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TIL That the great Sphinx of Giza actually has a tail

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Me17K TIL that when Coca Cola launched Dasani bottled water in the UK they lazily used the same campaign they’d used in the USA, and soon found out that BOTTLED SPUNK doesn’t mean the same thing in the UK that it does in America.
8a1WL TIL that the Japanese translator of the Salman Rushdie book, The Satanic Verses, was killed and the Italian Translator was wounded in separate attacks as part of the 'Fatwa' issued by Iran.
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