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TIL of Orania: South Africa's only remaining whites only town

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a8dNN TIL The Wii Sports Music was based on a song by David Foster for the 1988 Winter Olympics
R55Xa TIL that the FCC prohibits replications of the Emergency Alert System tone. Broadcasters misusing it can be sanctioned and fined. In 2013, the trailer for Olympus Has Fallen had EAS tones and cable providers were fined $1.9 million dollars.
Wkr7N TIL that popping a pimple in the ominously dubbed "triangle of death" area of your face could lead to brain infection.
Rx71 TIL there’s a PS2 video game where you play as a mosquito and your job is to suck blood from a family.
eEvk TIL that before the American revolution, the English actually pronounced their R’s, and the English accent then actually sounded like today’s General American accent.