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TIL Dwayne Johnson’s manager is his ex wife Dany Garcia

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v1QVD TIL a robot once boarded at LAX airport, with a valid German passport and a ticket to Frankfurt
9YZ66 TIL of Justine Sacco who before a flight to South Africa in 2013 tweeted to her 170 followers "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just Kidding. I'm white!" By the time she landed she was the number one trending topic in the world and had been fired
b6XLQ TIL the Netherlands has a Quick-Response Team of firefighters, outfitted with military-style tactical gear
X0QKE TIL That a big part of the reason the Australian Labor Party is not spelled "Labour" is because American-Australians had a strong presence in Australia's early labor movement.
9wb6Q TIL that the term "quack" to mean an incompetent doctor came from the Dutch word "kwakzalver", which was a person who sold dubious medicaments on the street at and at fairs.