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TIL Kevin Spacey's brother is a Rod Stewart impersonator

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j6J4E TIL in the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho, a local style of accordion folk music known as Famo has sprung a fierce bloody gang war which has contributed to its high homicide rate. Little-known to the outside world, scores of musicians and hundreds of DJs, fans, family members etc. have been slain.
PP1Z TIL that one of Alabama’s most prominent meth dealers in the 2000s was a teacher named “Walter White.” He was arrested the year Breaking Bad began.
d8Vr7 TIL a French woman, Marie Belmont-Gobert, hid a British soldier in a cramped cupboard in her house from Jan 1915 to the end of WWI in 1918, despite German officers living in her home and socialising in the room the cupboard was in. She received an OBE post-war. Cupboard is in museum in U.K.
R5Wk8 TIL Naomi Campbell appeared in the music video for "Is This Love?" by Bob Marley, she was just 7 years old at the time
VBmjQ TIL: Stephen King threw away the manuscript of "Carrie" in frustration, but his wife Tabitha retrieved it from the trash and encouraged him to keep working on it.