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TIL Kyrgyz goats have a lump of fat on their back that is considered a delicacy, and these animals can fetch extreme prices

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p84ne TIL as a play on the copyright infringement common in the former Soviet Union, the packaging of Borat's DVD mimics a foreign bootleg DVD. The slipcover is in English but with an all-Cyrillic text and is made to look poorly photocopied. The disc is a parody on Memorex in the form of Demorez DVD-R.
eZVn TIL that a professor from Switzerland wrote a book about how intelligence agencies have a “strategy of tension” by faking terrorist attacks to keep populations in fear and under control.
ZpA6R TIL that the 46th ranked women's single table tennis player in the entire world (and also part of the 10th ranked women's doubles team in the world) recently celebrated her 60th birthday (yes SIXTY).
gAvW TIL that three men from Yemen sued NASA for invading Mars. They claim that they “inherited the planet from our ancestors 3,000 years ago”.
MrWV TIL that the first joke Bob Saget ever told onstage was “I have the brain of a German Shepherd and the body of a 16-year-old boy; they’re both in my car and I want you to see them”