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TIL with the popularity of palm reading in Japan, some are getting “palm surgery” as a way to cheat fate

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p8xBN TIL: Josie Jump was removed from Balamory after a few series after disagreements happened between the BBC and Josie's "house" owner. The house was actually a working hotel, and the owner got fed up with the tourists, so he told some children that he "killed Josie and put her under the hotel patio".
Ove1 TIL that the SriLankan Airlines president sacked the CEO after he refused to move business class passengers to economy to give their seats to the airline’s president’s family. He appointed his brother-in-law instead, who lacked experience. In 7 years the airline accumulated US$875 million in losses
ZxvD TIL After being shot, kicked, and spat upon, the bodies of Benito Mussolini and his mistress were hung upside down on meathooks from the roof of an Esso gas station. The bodies were then stoned by civilians from below. NSFW
awjny TIL that KaiOS is the third biggest mobile operating system in the world, holding 9% of the market OS'
YJlx TIL that if NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea