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TIL that Idi Amin's best man was Yasser Arafat. The woman he married during that wedding, Sarah Kyolaba, became a hairdresser and later ran a small cafe in London. She died of cancer in 2015.

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gM7lb TIL that the musical Cats is so popular in Japan, that it has been running since 1983. It caused a “musical boom” and brought other Broadway musicals to Japan. There is a purpose-built CATS theatre in Tokyo. The production has played over 10,000 performances to over 10 million audience members.
KYMpG TIL “The Mountain” from GoT forced himself onto his ex in order to prove that he didn’t cheat on her
x6b65 TIL 75% of the 33,600 schools in the UK contain asbestos at levels high enough for attendees to inhale a few million fibers
9Y8Jr TIL of 1960s Japanese TV series The Samurai. After few episodes were shown on Australian TV in 1964, viewer demand led to the entire series being shown: it became the most popular show on TCN9 to that time and when the series star arrived in Melbourne he was met by thousands of fans, many in costume
D1avP TIL in 1970 George Carlin, tiring of performing clean stand-up comedy, listed the many uses of the word "shit" one night at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. He was immediately fired and escorted from the premises.