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TIL Akon owns a diamond mine in South Africa

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d8mjQ TIL Mexico City’s Day of the Dead parade was invented for the James Bond film "Spectre" and then adopted by the city so tourists wouldn't be disappointed.
xy01 TIL that when the Emperor told his people that Japan was surrendering in WWII, almost no one understood his Classical Japanese dialect!
ERdd TIL the word “Gypped” meaning “to cheat, swindle”, is a racial slur deriving from the word “Gypsy”
jNaoQ TIL Teddy Roosevelt's son fought in WWI as a pilot, he was killed in a dogfight and his plane crashed behind the enemy lines, the germans gave him a full military burial with honor. Reportedly, they admired that a president's son chose to fight.
yVNPl Today I learned that a shape-shifting robot can melt itself to escape a lab jail using magnets. The robot has been filmed melting itself to escape through the bars of a miniature jail cell, much like the T-1000 in Terminator 2.