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TIL Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, a muslim-canadian, is among the most popular mayors in North America with potentially 90% voter support

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wL6lP TIL Japan’s ex-prime minister Nobusuke Kishi is a Class A War Criminal
E175p TIL of couple Vladimir & Lidiya Guryev of Montclair New Jersey. They are Russian spies in pretense of being locals in the name of Richard & Cynthia Murphy. They arrived in US in mid 1990s and arrested by FBI in 2010.
xVdGw TIL that there is a chemical that smells so bad, a single drop forced the evacuation of an entire city in 1889.
ADW67 TIL Drake's 2018 hit "Nice for What" sampled Lauryn Hill's "Ex-Factor," which sampled Wu-Tang's "Can It All Be So Simple," which sampled Gladys Knight's cover of Streisand's "The Way We Were." So the writer of "The Way We Were" is also credited on "Nice for What" but no part of his writing is in it
QJRyk TIL, a bank teller refused to cash Charlize Theron's check when she first came to Hollywood; so she engaged in a shouting match with him. A talent agent, waiting behind her, handed her his business card and subsequently introduced her to casting agents. She made her film debut several months later.