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TIL currently in Mauritania 680,000 or 20% of the population is enslaved.

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wBEM TIL Norway has underwater drones which fire lasers in order to kill lice on salmon
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kjvB TIL Jon Lovitz blames Andy Dick for the death of former SNL and Simpsons star Phil Hartman. After confronting him about it, Lovitz repeatedly smashed Dick’s head into a bar.