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TIL Lead singer of popular Lambada song was brutally murdered in 2017

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KOY89 TIL that Point Nemo, an area in the southern Pacific Ocean 2,400 mi southeast of Wellington, is also a Spacecraft Cemetery. A total of more than 263 spacecraft were disposed of in this area between 1971 and 2016.
Eg9DW TIL that, because white chocolate is made using only the butter or fat from the cocoa bean, but no cocoa solids, it isn't technically chocolate at all.
nJWG TIL that Jews account for 20% of all Nobel Prize laureates, despite being only 0.2% of the world’s population.
5YydB TIL there is no road connecting North and South America
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