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TIL White farmers in South Africa are under attack. Violence against whites has reached epidemic proportions and the government is looking the other way.

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jBnE TIL that in the song “Sittin on the Dock of the Bay,” Otis Redding simply whistled the last verse in the recording because he hadn’t thought of any lyrics yet. Three days after recording, he died in a plane crash, and both the song and the whistling became iconic.