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TIL that John Cena holds the record for most wishes granted by a single person (Make-A-Wish Foundation)

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4XDVg TIL Ghana is considered ‘Africa for beginners’, while its neighbour Nigeria is ‘Africa for the very experienced’, due to its reputation as one of the world’s most difficult places to travel in. Away from the expat suburbs of Lagos, Westerners are a rare sight
vPyN4 TIL Joanna Lee, one of the actresses in Plan Nine From Outer Space, went on to create the after-school special format and won an Emmy for writing an episode of The Waltons.
X0g1E TIL the number of Indian seamen employed on UK ships was so great that the British tried to restrict this by the Navigation Acts in force from 1660, which required that 75 percent of the crew of a British-registered ship importing goods from Asia had to be British.
5VmNR TIL Americans donate the largest amount of money to charity as percent of GDP by a large margin
GYb6N TIL that since 1999, 55 Cuban soccer players have defected to the United States after being flown over for a game. This was possible because of the wet feet, dry feet policy, which stated that any Cuban who set foot in the United States was entitled to become a US resident. The policy ended in 2017.