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TIL Heath Ledger gave Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros cash so they could record their first album

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8aDLL TIL North Korea has 1 of the biggest art factories, which makes both state propaganda, and colossal monuments that many countries have bought eg, Senegal’s African Renaissance Monument, in Dakar, 164 feet tall, taller than Rio de Janeiro’s Cristo Redentor
wLKM1 TIL traffic is so bad in Bangkok that Thai Traffic Police has a unit of officers trained in basic midwifery in order to assist deliveries which do not reach the hospital in time.
KQe4 TIL There are giant clouds of alcohol in space.
PYJn TIL there are nearly 5,000 gods being worshiped by humanity.
RMK7 TIL that Bob Jones University Press sells “history” textbooks to hundreds of thousands of homeschooled kids, teaching them that gays are on-par with rapists, the Trail of Tears was a good thing, the KKK was just a “reform movement”, etc.