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TIL about the facekini, a mask for people to wear at the beach to protect from sunburn.

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ZkQB TIL Lawrence Brewer ended the last meal in TX when he ordered two chicken-fried steaks, a triple bacon cheeseburger, an omelette, fried okra, a pound of barbecue, half of a loaf of bread, three fajitas, meat-lover’s pizza, a pint of ice cream, fudge, and three root beers and didn’t eat any of it.
AaA4 TIL that Michel Ray, the Young Actor who Played Lawrence’s Servant Farraj in Lawrence of Arabia, Quit Acting, Went to Harvard, Then into Finance, Became an Olympic Skier and Luger, Married the Heineken Heiress And Is Now A Billionaire.
PYJaV TIL that in addition to being the second largest country in Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo is also the world's second largest French-speaking country with its capital, Kinshasa, being the largest French-speaking city.
vP4N8 TIL, in the year 2003, Maywood Chemical Works — now owned by Stepan Company — imported more than 385,000 pounds of coca leaf for Coca-Cola, enough to make $200 million of cocaine, all of which legally had to be destroyed, likely by incineration.
MG8B TIL Uday Hussein, Saddam’s son, murdered his father’s personal valet and food taster with an electric carving knife in front of dinner guests at Suzanne Mubarak’s birthday party for introducing his father to his second wife.