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noDP TIL high-quality bamboo is stronger than steel
ZpAep TIL that Rockstar Games felt that the Skatt Brothers song "Walk the Night" was so essential to GTA IV's soundtrack that they hired a private investigator to fly to Orem, Utah and track down the lead singer Sean Delaney's surviving relatives (he died in 2003) to secure the rights of the song.
5YerD TIL during WWII an American plane was shot down on the Japanese island of Chi Chi Jama. There were nine men on board, eight of whom were captured, tortured, beheaded, and eaten. The only one to evade capture had ditched his plane further from the island than the others. He name was George HW Bush.
ADd7o TIL there is a confederate Mount Rushmore in Georgia
V0PZ TIL that Ikea names sofas, coffee tables, bookshelves, media storage and doorknobs after places in Sweden; beds, wardrobes and hall furniture after places in Norway; carpets after places in Denmark and dining tables and chairs after places in Finland.