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TIL that future supermodel Naomi Campbell was featured in the music video for the Bob Marley song 'Is This Love', when she was a child.

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e0ZpL TIL that a linesman in the 2006 Champions League final between Arsenal and Barcelona was replaced on the day of the final, because he the day before had appeared in a local newspaper in his home country Norway wearing a Barcelona shirt.
kOmee TIL that when US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara visited South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, he didn't know that Vietnamese was a tonal language. So, he thought that he was saying "Long live a free Vietnam!" but actually said "Vietnam, go to sleep!"
4DPN TIL the last person executed under Oklahoma’s death penalty law, James French, famously said as his last words before death; “How’s this for your headline? French Fries.”
yQ4VM TIL when the deposed last Empress Consort of China was imprisoned, she would hallucinate that she was still in the Forbidden City, demanding opium and servants. Put on display in the jail as if she was in a zoo, she died from malnutrition and opium withdrawal in a pool of her own bodily fluids.
dDWBd TIL that in 2022, Belle Isle Park in Detroit had to temporary close their giant slide due to people going down the slide at excessive speeds. Before closing, video of children going up and down the bumps on the slide and slamming back down were captured and posted on social media that scared some.