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TIL North Koreans built Africa’s tallest statue in Senegal

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JYRbB TIL- Worldwide Males commit 95% of all homicides and makeup 79% of all homicide victims
aRvJ TIL that the song “Barbie girl” by Aqua sparked a 5 year law suit between Mattel and the recording studio MCA Records, which the judge concluded with saying: “The parties are advised to chill.”
WwMX TIL that British prisoners of war during WW2 were a huge morale drain on the German people. And often they’d get their captors arrested by filing fallacious complaints about their treatment in the camps.
l545 TIL Gene Roddenberry gave a list of “do nots” to the Next Generation writers which includes not writing about sorcery, psychic powers, mad scientists, and swords.
Bnmy TIL Weird Al’s first hit “My Bologna” was recorded in a men’s room across the hall from his college radio station.