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TIL Wikitravel specifically warns visitors to Kazakhstan not to mention Borat.

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Lk98r TIL the NASA cameras that tracked Apollo rockets were built off of M-45 quadmount anti-aircraft gun systems
wLgKY TIL that the Free French forces that liberated Paris in WW2 were pre-selected to be completely white, despite colored soldiers making up a majority of the Free French forces. Both the US and UK demanded their exclusion from the liberation.
GZkN TIL that George RR Martin’s A Storm of Swords lost the 2001 Hugo Award for Best Novel to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. His response? “Eat your heart out, Rowling. Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don’t have readers like these.”
1aPor TIL Karoshi, which can be translated literally as "overwork death", is a Japanese term relating to occupational sudden mortality. The phenomenon of death by overwork is also widespread in other parts of Asia. 745,194 deaths worldwide were attributable to long working hours in 2016, based on WHO/ILO.
78b5p TIL in 1955, at age 76, Albert Einstein suffered a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. Doctors offered surgery, but he refused, saying, “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially.” He died the next day, on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.