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TIL Boney M's Bobby Farrell died on the same day at the same place as Grigori Rasputin whom he inspired them to write a song about.

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vP6bB TIL that Fidel Castro’s personal love for dairy products and ice cream was so great that he began a state funded project to grow Cuba’s dairy industry by bio engineering a cow that was perfect for producing milk and could thrive in Cuba’s warm climate.
QNXGE TIL the U.S. General Services Administration announced in 2023 that up to 6 lighthouses would be given away to entities willing to maintain and preserve them and make them available to the public. The lighthouses were no longer needed due to modern technology such as GPS.
R7Yaw TIL that a false surrender is a war crime under Protocol I of the Geneva Convention.
OGM6 TIL that there is an island in France which has a population of 44, but gets almost 10,000 visitors a day.
Knb4 TIL that there are more African American men incarcerated in the U.S. than the total prison populations in India, Argentina, Canada, Lebanon, Japan, Germany, Finland, Israel and England combined.