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a8r5y TIL Cameroonian footballer Roger Milla came out of retirement and played at the 1990 FIFA World Cup after a request made by Cameroon president Paul Biya. He scored 4 goals in 1990 WC as a substitute as he started every game of the tournament on the bench.
prYA TIL that “in the second grade [Shakira] rejected from the school choir because her vibrato was too strong. The music teacher told her that she sounded ‘like a goat’.”
vP4wx TIL Savitri Devi was invited by fellow Nazi Francoise Dior to stay at her chateau in 1970 as part of their post war networking. The visit turned unpleasant and she had to leave because of Devi's annoying habits: she was constantly chewing on garlic and didn't take a shower during her 9 month visit
yV8rp TIL: One of the generals in the Second Liberian Civil War tried magical invisibility spells in combat & when they failed, ran into fights nude to avoid his clothes being seen. Afterward he tried to reform his image by converting to Christianity, but the public doubted the honesty of his conversion.
OPQ7 TIL that British soldiers ate the hallucinogenic Jimson weed during Bacon’s Rebellion, they spent eleven days in altered mental states.