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TIL Justin Bieber has been banned from China in order to 'purify' nation

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oRKrK TIL that smoke detectors need to be replaced every 10 years
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Oo4b7 TIL a boucanier was a French hunter in the Caribbean who smoked meat on a wooden frame called a boucane. Boucaniers sold their meat to the corsairs operating around the Caribbean. Eventually the corsairs themselves were referred to as boucaniers, later anglicized as "buccaneers".
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