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TIL An American has been held in a Dubai prison for 8 months without trial for uploading a spoof video on youtube.

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kJxNg TIL that TMZ (the tabloid show) is named after the Thirty Mile Zone, or "Studio Zone" around Hollywood
VM0LD TIL that Claudius was a very unusual Roman emperor because he was exclusively attracted to women.
MN87 TIL Domino’s Pizza cancelled their ‘30 minutes or less’ guarantee because of their drivers causing accidents while rushing to deliver pizzas on time, resulting in at least one fatality.
A8O4 TIL of “canary trapping”, a method for exposing an information leak by giving different versions of a sensitive document to each of several suspects and seeing which version gets leaked.
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