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TIL that a live broadcast of a panda giving birth was cancelled after it was found that the panda was faking her pregnancy for extra food

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x6Odo TIL Spike Lee negotiated with a Brazilian drug lord to allow him to film Michael Jackson's 96 music video 'They Don’t Care About Us' in a Rio de Janeiro slum. The drug kingpin replied “With Michael Jackson here, this will be the safest place in the world.”
Z6jY TIL France removes 900 tons of unexploded ordinance each year from the ‘No-Go Zone’. Farmers call it the 'Iron Harvest’.
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