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TIL The song "Africa" by Toto is forever playing somewhere in the Namibian desert

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V7n0 TIL that a man named Chen Si spends every weekend of his life at the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge (the World’s #1 suicide site) and saves people from jumping. He has saved 144 people from killing themselves so far.
PYXOL TIL that Henry IV of France was assassinated after his coach got stuck in traffic. His second wife had just been crowned Queen of France. Her coronation had caused the congestion.
VMly0 TIL that many countries end in the word -istan because "stan" is an ancient Persian word that means "land"
OGa51 TIL of the Benjamin Duke House on 5th Avenue in New York City. It was completed in 1901 for an heir to the Duke tobacco fortune. It remained in the Duke Family for more than a century and In 2006 it sold to a former taxi driver for $40 million, the most ever paid for a Manhattan residence.
R7QM9 TIL: Of Rotary Jails, huge rotating carosel like jails that would "store" inmates in a large machine that would rotate to let them in and out. They were phased out partially due to inmates limbs being sheared off by the rotation.