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TIL that a few years ago, Bahrain’s oppressed and overcrowded Shiite majority began using Google Earth to view palaces and other estates that make up 95% of the country. As these images churned up discontent, the government blocked Google Earth.

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e08wJ TIL For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. "They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests," reported a fifteenth-century tale
Br1Le TIL megachurch pastor Ed Young drove a Ferrari 458 Italia on stage during service, parked it, got out, and said: “God gave me a Ferrari because I AM a Ferrari.”
4PBw TIL That in 1995 Boris Yeltsin, the then President of Russia, when visiting DC was found drunk in his underwear trying to hail a cab to find pizza.
Ea1X TIL Nickelodeon’s Kids Pick the President has successful predicted the outcome of all but one of the presidential elections since 1988.
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