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TIL of Ros Sereysothea, A Cambodian rock singer given the title "The Queen of the Golden Voice" who vanished completely under the reign of the Khmer Rouge

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BobL TIL Romans used urine as mouthwash, they even paid high dollar to have large quantities shipped in from Portugal because they didn’t think their own pee was exotic enough.
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wPoE TIL when McDonald’s first introduced drive-throughs to China, the concept was so foreign that many people would pick up their food through the drive-thru, park their cars, and bring the food inside the restaurant to eat it.
0wZlv TIL that a completely blind atheist was Oklahoma's first US Senator.