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TIL the russian army didn’t have socks for 300 years, instead they used footwraps but they are going to introduce socks in 2013

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b6Joa TIL A Qantas Boeing 747 once carried an extra engine on its wing between Sydney and Johannesburg
OoPna TIL that rock band Foo Fighters provided music, appear in, and gave tacit support for the 2004 film "The Other Side of AIDS." The pseudoscientific documentary tries to argue that HIV does not cause AIDS.
xVrAD til: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is the only group to work with 2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G., Eazy-E, and Big Pun while they were still alive
b9Wnj TIL that the name of the company LEGO comes from the Danish phrase "leg godt", which means "play well". Interestingly, the Latin word "lego" means "I put together", but this is just a coincidence - when LEGO first started, it only made wooden toys.
wjo8 TIL Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” is banned in karaoke bars in the Philippines because several singers have been killed for ‘butchering’ the song.