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TIL Bill Murray once got lost in the jungles of Bali on a motorbike. He was later found putting on an impromptu show with all of the locals of a small village in attendance, even though he didn’t speak Balinese.

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1aRj8 TIL of the late December Saturnalia, a festival celebrated for a 1,000 years by the Romans when people wore more informal clothes, gave presents to each other, had parties and slaves were allowed to gamble and get drunk in public.
XEG9r TIL that Samsung used to be a grocery store at first , and became the giant of electronics after 1969.
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KOjJ4 TIL there is more than one version of the holy Quran. While the current version was ‘Standardised’ in 1923, earlier manuscripts more recently discovered, show changes.