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TIL 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since World Cup awarded

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7yDL TIL Director Robert Zemeckis, who has approval over all films in the Back to the Future franchise, says that he will block all attempts to remake or reboot the original film.
dDAMQ TIL that Shalimar Seiuli, the sex worker who gained infamy when she was seen getting into Eddie Murphy's car, died after falling five floors after she locked herself out of her apartment and tried to use a towel as a rope to swing down from the roof to an open window.
5V868 TIL Ontario's boundary with the United States runs 2700 kilometers on water and only about one kilometer on land.
Lk01d Til the American Government tried to instill the values of home ownership in the American people with federal programs in 1917 to prevent the rise of communism as they believed people who owned their own homes had a stake in the capitalist system.
NgGQ TIL, in 1982, the town of Kennesaw, Georgia passed an ordinance requiring every head of household to own a gun. Since then there hasn’t been one murder, burglaries decreased by half, and the town has the lowest crime rate in the United States.