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TIL Michael Bay’s average Rotten Tomatoes film rating is 38%

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VMXYk TIL during the Great Famine, the Ottoman Sultan "Abdulmejid I" couldn't donate more than £1,000, in order not to embarrass Queen Victoria's £2,000 donation. Wanting to donate more, he sent up to 3 ships filled with wheat and Indian Corn as a "hushed-up" gesture, not wanting to upset the Queen.
Q49M TIL that the guards of the Tomb of the Unknowns do not wear rank insignia so that they do not outrank the soldiers buried in the tomb, whatever their ranks may have been.
Bg61K TIL In 1964, Dusty Springfield was deported from South Africa for breaking apartheid rules. She said she would only perform to racially-mixed audiences but the authorities didn't approve. She was forced to leave the country before she had finished her tour.
woPZW TIL Eldey island supported the last remnant population of the great auks. Museums, desiring the skins of the auk for preservation and display, began collecting birds. The last pair, were killed there in 1844, when they were strangled and the last egg of the species was cracked during the struggle.
VmYQ TIL 39% of Japanese women and 36% of Japanese men ages 18 to 34 have never had sex.