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Today I learned that the shortest war in history only lasted 38-45 minutes.

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V9dm TIL Even though Wierd Al does not need to ask for permission for his parodies and does not need to pay royalties yet he only makes parodies with permission of the original artists and pays royalties for the songs as well.
X0PJr TIL that Tony Bennett, the great jazz/pop singer, was also a successful artist (and his paintings are amazing). His painting of Ella Fitzgerald is in the Smithsonian. How did I not know this before?
x61kB TIL Helsinki, Finland was used to film many Cold War era Hollywood movies when filming in the USSR was not possible. Examples include The Kremlin Letter (1970), Reds (1981), and Gorky Park (1983).
x6E1b TIL that a 68-year-old inmate in Malta was fined €800 for telling the former prisons director and two guards to “kiss my balls”, but he appealed the sentence and won
gMYv7 TIL In November 2015, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President of Mauritania, reportedly ordered the 2015 Mauritanian Super Cup to go to a penalty shootout in the 63rd minute with the score tied 1–1 because he was getting bored with the match.