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TIL Nigeria drinks more Guinness than Ireland

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7rro7 TIL the actor who played the murderer of Ricky in Boyz n the Hood was convicted of a double homicide and subsequently murdered by his Satan worshipping cellmate, who used his corpse for a ritual
R5Bg8 TIL that in world war 2, English soldiers would use passwords that had sounds that the language of the people they where fighting against did not have, so that they could tell if an unidentified person was an enemy soldier tying to infiltrate them by if they said these sounds correctly.
pB64 TIL that in 1988 when the american Internet was paralyzed by computer virus, quick thinker Pål Spiller saved the Norwegian Internet by literally pulling the plug