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TIL a Russian attempted suicide bomber died in 2011 after receiving a spam text message that wished her a happy new year, triggering the detonator on her mobile phone.

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vPppK TIL that “Tick-Tock the Crocodile” ‘s iconic music from 1953’s Peter Pan was composed with lyrics in 1939. Production of the movie was shelved due to WW2 and the lyrics cut from the final product. Its composer committed suicide in 1942.
awbmL TIL that in non-english speaking countries Dora the Explorer actually teaches english and not spanish
EggQw TIL Canada once had a ‘Exotic Dancer Visa Program’ where foreign women can enter the country to strip. Human traffickers took advantage of this..
eplBE TIL about Abu bakr al-razi. A Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who was among the first to use humoral theory to distinguish one contagious disease from another, and wrote a pioneering book about smallpox and measles providing clinical characterization of the diseases.
GlZj TIL Due to name confusion, staff of the Slovak and Slovenian embassies meet once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail