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TIL about Ghana's Dancing Pallbearers. The story behind the famous dancing funeral meme.

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loZgK TIL in Desiigner's "Panda," he addresses the incomprehensibility of his lyrics in the line "Hope you killas understand me"
78alO TIL that the Prussian commander at the Battle of Waterloo, Von Blucher was 73 years and in constant pain when he led his forces into battle to help defeat Napoleon.
R7VG4 TIL that Christopher Hitchens once agreed to be waterboarded for an article in Vanity Fair. He was given two metal objects, to drop as a non-vocal signal to show that he wanted to stop, and a safe word- “red”. It only took a few seconds for him to throw the objects down and end the experiment.
19j4 TIL that during prohibition in the US an exemption was made for whiskey prescribed by a doctor and sold through a pharmacy. The Walgreens pharmacy chain grew from 20 retail stores to almost 500 during this period, from 1920 to 1933
r50e TIL: The US is not in compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention - they missed their final extended deadline to destroy over 3000 tons of chemical weapons.