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TIL- That a famine in Ethiopia from 1983-1985 killed around 400,000-1,000,000 people and that 56,000 tons of food donated by aid efforts from the West through Live Aid was left to rot in a port by the Ethiopian government.

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5VMVB TIL Travis, the chimpanzee that was famous for ripping a woman’s face off, also was struck by a bottle thrown by a pedestrian, at a stop light, before unbuckling his seatbelt, jumping out the window, and chasing the man on foot then disappearing for several hours.
M860 TIL that the singer Drake’s nickname among his fans in China is “gōng yā”, literally “male duck”, while Kanye West’s nickname in China is “kǎn yé”, which in Beijing dialect means “someone who brags a lot with no actions to follow it up”
X0eV8 TIL that in 1991 a self-appointed reincarnation of Jesus Christ named Vissarion established a sect with thousands of followers, who lived as an isolate community in a remote Siberian village. Having promised the end of the world, the cult leader taught reincarnation and veganism to his adepts.
gvny TIL in 1987, a prison inmate broke a glass partition and knocked out the lights in a visitation area to have sex with a woman who was visiting him. Fellow inmates cheered him on while barricading the doors. He claimed it was an accident.
ZpwLY TIL the director of the French Connection paid an official at the New York Transit Authority a $40,000 bribe to overlook the rules and allow the famous chase sequence to be filmed.