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TIL that the female voice in Positive K's hit single, "I Got a Man" was in fact him.

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6E197 TIL during Grover Cleveland’s election campaign, it emerged that he had a possible illegitimate child. The campaign said it was true and that Grover had done his best in dealing with it. The mother disagreed- she said Grover had assaulted her, then had the baby taken from her and had her committed.
JKNB TIL The entire country of Liechtenstein can be rented for $70,000 a day.
GJZN TIL that 14 of the poorest African countries are forced by France, through a colonial pact, to put 85% of their foreign reserve into France central bank.They are effectively putting in 500 Billion dollars every year to the French treasury.
bo8Z TIL that if California was a separate nation it would have the 8th largest economy in the world. In 1999 it would have ranked 6th.
BrLxk Today I learned that being late in Brazil is so part of the culture, if they want to start on time they say “com pontualidade britânica” which means “with British punctuality.”