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Istanbul is locking down. But not if you’re a tourist.

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nAYb TIL that The Replacements (who were replacing The Pointer Sisters at the last minute as the SNL musical guest) smuggled booze and drugs backstage, got drunk with Harry Dean Stanton, broke a guitar on their way to perform, swore on-air, and were banned from returning to the show.
gMgjL TIL kraft paper is not "craft paper" and gets its name from the kraft process used to make it, unrelated to its use for arts and crafts
BrNDK TIL clocks run from left to right because in the Northern hemisphere that's how sundials cast shadows (bonus: in an attempt to recover their cultural identity, Bolivians installed an anti-clockwise clock in their Congress building)
BrQRK TIL TV shows show CPR working around 75% of the time, while in real life its effectiveness is actually 5-7%.
WemX TIL from 1970 to 2010, populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish have declined by an average of 52%. We are not in the “beginning” of the Sixth Great Extinction. We are in the middle of it.