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KYgeE TIL Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour began in 2018 and set to to finally conclude this weekend in Sweden, with at least $910 million in ticket sales
dDw8E TIL the tiny landlocked African country of Lesotho has a ski resort called Afriski. It has slopes and lifts as high as 3000 meters (about 10,000 feet). In the summer there is hiking and mountain biking.
Y7jbP TIL that while the filming budget for the movie Easy Rider was only around 400,000 dollars, an additional million had to be spent for the licensed music tracks.
N71a6 TIL the U.S. has a region nicknamed "Cancer Alley" where 150+ petrochemical plants operate. Cancer rates there are 53.33% higher than the national average.
yVA7M TIL that while commonly associated with the WW2 Normandy landings, "D-Day" is just a general military term for the date of a planned attack; the equivalent in French being "Jour J", "Lá L" in Irish and "Tag X" in German.