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TIL There's a yearly tradition in Madagascar to exhume ancestral remains and dance with them

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JgrQ TIL that Jerry Lewis made a movie in 1972 where he plays a clown in a concentration camp, and leads kids on a train to a gas chamber. It has never seen the light of day.
vPN4K TIL Paul McCartney reached out to victims of the Lac-Megantic train disaster and gave free tickets to his Quebec City show to survivors two weeks after the incident. 47 people were killed from the explosion and about 2,000 people were forced to flee the area
b9pXN TIL that 2010 and 2015, Russia accounted for more than 80% of the new HIV infections in the entire Eastern European and the Central Asian region.
Z8Q6B TIL there are over 70 cats living in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. They are quite celebrities - not only films have been made about them but there's also a festival and a holiday dedicated to them.
VBpeZ TIL: the water speed record hasn’t been broken in over 45 years