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TIL of Botswana’s vibrant metalhead scene, where heavy metal is combined with traditional African musical styles to create a unique type of music.

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BrK8b TIL A 'cancer patient' underwent surgery to remove a lump in his lungs. It turned out to be caused by a toy traffic cone he inhaled 40 years ago. He did not have cancer after all.
8moZ TIL the Italian version of “You can’t have your cake and eat it too” is “Your barrel is full and the wife is drunk.” Other languages translate the phrase as, “You desire to have both the moustache and to drink the soup.”
Qr1p TIL that the Nazis resurrected an extinct breed of cow that was so aggressive it tried to kill anyone that got near it.
4XVDb TIL that Mork And Mindy was one of the first sit-coms to use four cameras instead of three. Show-runner Garry Marshall added a fourth camera in order to capture Robin Williams' unpredictable and ''psychically active'' performance.
QJXn9 TIL Carrots were originally purple. The orange ones we are familiar with today started as a hybrid intended to be sweeter.