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TIL Frank Sinatra was once trapped in Australia by a country-wide strike, in response to the singer's horrible behavior

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6EWr8 TIL Plato wrote of the Ring of Gyges: A shepherd found a golden ring in a tomb in a cave, pocketed it, realized it could make him invisible, used it to seduce the queen, commit regicide, and become the new king.
x60v0 TIL about Capt. Ben Salomon, a US Army dentist who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for defending wounded soldiers from hundreds of Japanese attackers at the Battle of Saipan (1944)
RvD6 TIL that Bret and Jemaine of Flight of the Concords were rumored to be denied funding by New Zealands TV3 because Bret and Jemaine’s humor was deemed “too Wellington”, meaning their humor would not work with the average New Zealander outside of Wellington.
691E8 TIL O.J Simpson did an interview with Judith Regan where he confessed to the murders in detail
5VeA8 TIL, at tax originally levied in 1898 during the Spanish-American War was in effect until 2006.