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TIL that 70s / 80s music star Plastic Bertrand wasn’t actually the singer for his first 4 albums, and the public had no idea for 30 years. He only received .5% of the royalties for “his” international hit, ‘Ça Plane Pour Moi”, with the majority likely going to the songs actual singer, Lou Deprijck.

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oB0AE TIL: As of 2012 there is still an active witch hunting unit in Saudi Arabia. In 2009, 118 people were charged with witchcraft and by 2011 there were 9 bureaus in the country to combat sorcery. The US has been accused of having sorcerers.
GYYe7 TIL that Waco, Texas, had so many gunfights in the late 1800's that it was called >Six Shooter Junction.
JYaX8 TIL that by 3400 B.C. the Sumerians were growing the opium poppy and called it Hul Gil, the 'joy plant'.
LQDdZ TIL that Cassowary meat is so tough that people were told to cook it with a stone in the pot. "When the stone is ready to eat, so is the Cassowary."
rAO4 TIL that Katrin Himmler, grandniece of SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, has NOT refused to have children to end her great-uncle’s “bloodline”, because she believes the idea of good or evil being passed through “bloodlines” is itself a reflection of Nazi ideology.