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TIL an Italian singer wrote a song in the 70s that is made to simulate how a non-English speaker hears American English

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X0rrE TIL two men robbed banks with their faces covered in lemon juice because they thought it would make them invisible to security cameras. This led to the Dunning-Kruger effect: people with limited ability in a topic believe they excel.
DQvKv TIL: In pre revolutionary France, the tax was called the "taille", which was originally a way for peasants to pay to be exempt from the army. However, it was expanded afterwards. Nobles, clergy, and people living in Paris and Lyon were excluded.
kamB TIL only 8 teams have won the NBA championship in the last 30 years
KvKE TIL Steve Jobs would sue companies after they would help create something for apple. (They also didn’t create anything on their own)
e0AZ6 TIL radioactive boars run wild in abandoned towns around the Fukushima nuclear disaster zone, and occasionally attack people.