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TIL there were plans for a TV series based on the Plain White T's hit song "Hey There, Delilah".

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kGGm TIL When billions of dollars in aid flowed to Afghanistan, the money was used to commission an airline to shuttle around UN officials and hire chauffeurs, rather than build local infrastructure or public services
MeDmW TIL the 1100 page epic novel about the history of Japan "Shogun" by James Clavell was inspired by a single sentence in his daughter's school textbook that read "in 1600 an Englishman went to Japan and became a Samurai".
JMb1 TIL Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of current embattled Syrian president, flaunted to Thomas Freidman that he killed 38,000 people in the 1982 Hama Massacre. He currently lives in the UK, and since there was no War Crimes Tribunal three decades ago, and the Statute of Limitations, he cannot be prosecuted.
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a87D9 TIL that the film 'Transylvania 6-5000' (1985) starring Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley Jr. was shot in Yugoslavia and coproduced by the Dow Chemical Company. Dow had funds in Yugoslavian Dinars that could only be spent within the country, and they needed to unfreeze the assets.