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TIL that due to food and labour shortages in the 1960’s, Brazil has the world’s largest population of Japanese people outside of Japan.

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OO8R TIL that one of the hikers who found “Ötzi,” a 5000 year old mummy buried in ice in the Alps, was found dead, buried in ice, after a hiking accident in 2004. He is one of 7 people linked to the mummy to have died within the same year.
grM14 TIL that CeCe Peniston was the first foreign female entertainer to perform in post-apartheid South Africa.
nWGdB TIL that one of the most celebrated Bugs Bunny cartoons was thought up when the head of the cartoon studio randomly and inexplicably told the animators that they were not to make any cartoons about bullfighting
4oo TIL in islamic heaven, beautiful virgins meant for men regain their virginity after each intercourse, possess voluptuous full breasts that can’t go saggy and are also free from menstruation, urination, defecation and childbirth.
e0Rkn TIL that in Norse mythology at the end of the world (Ragnarok) the gods--Odin, Thor, Loki and the others--as well as all humans, will die. Evil triumphs over good, and the world will be engulfed in water.