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TIL "Chris-R" from Tommy Wiseau's The Room is an Olympic Athlete

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lok87 TIL about Christopher Roberts, a classical bassist, who in the 1980s hiked into Papua New Guinea's jungles with his bass and tape recorder. By doing so, he preserved a tribe's rich musical heritage & history, which were being lost because of mining & missionaries.
KY0QQ TIL it was reported that over 500k children died as a result of sanctions on Iraq after the first gulf war, despite it being proven as a manipulation of census data by Saddam’s government, is still believed by many Iraqis today.
wLMlM TIL about Runaway, a 1984 film from North Korea that features covers of ABBA songs.
Oa1L TIL The last surviving ship of the White Star Line (who built the Titanic in 1908) appeared in France in 2012 and is still operable today (102 years old).
6Ex9W TIL each person who becomes 100 years old receives a congratulatory letter signed by the President with a gift cheque of €2,540 in Ireland. This custom is called the "Centenarian Bounty" and also applies to foreign national residents of the country.