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TIL Qatar’s 2022 World Cup will take more lives than 9/11 due to horrible working conditions for migrant workers building stadiums and infrastructure.

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AgVo TIL F. Scott Fitzgerald made Ernest Hemingway look at his penis to see if it was of average size because Fitzgerald’s (somewhat insane) wife Zelda said the size of his penis could, “never make any woman happy”.
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x6jRg TIL that in 2011, George Michael came out of a coma speaking in a country western accent -- an instance of a rare but real neurological condition called foreign accent syndrome.
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