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TIL that despite containing a sizable population that despises homosexuality and Western liberal values, Zanzibar’s tourism industry thrives because of Queen fans that visit the island to see Freddie Mercury’s birthplace.

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epvjn TIL about Ralph Lazo, the only non-spouse non-Japanese American citizen to volunteer to live in the Japanese-American internment camps during WW2. He would later leave the camp to join the US Army to help expel the Japanese military from the Philippines, earning a Bronze Star Medal.
OD7L TIL that two brothers re-gifted the same pair of pants for over 12 Xmases, in increasingly difficult ‘wrapping’ that included a crushed AMC Gremlin with a note saying: “Merry Christmas, the pants are in the glove box”.
Z87bB TIL In 2001 Charles Ingram won the grand prize (£1,000,000) on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” by having a friend in the audience cough on the right answer. He was suspected of cheating, and after review of the recordings the accusation was confirmed. He was charged for deception.
jNNZR TIL of Neom, a $500 billion utopian territory based on tech and liberal values that Saudi Arabia plans to build by 2025
NRm8 TIL a soldier posted on Peleliu in 1944 craved ice-cream so much that together with aircraft engineers put a can filled with milk onto the underside of each wing tip of their planes, attaching a stirring shaft to a wind-driven propeller and then taking off. They made 100 portions of ice every day.