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TIL: Josephine Stephenson, the soprano in Tenebrae's "Miserere mei, Deus" YouTube video, wasn’t scheduled to be there

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YWe7 TIL the the $100 million in famine relief raised by Live Aid in 1985, was used to buy weapons and crush the opposition in Ethiopia’s civil war
5VQVR TIL that although smoking is prohibited on commercial aircraft, the doors of airplane lavatories must have ashtrays to give rule-breakers a safe place to dispose of their cigarettes
e0vdD TIL that to solve their issue of crime syndicates attending shareholder meetings and blackmailing members, Japanese businesses decided to hold all their annual meetings on the same day because the syndicates would not have enough people to send to all of them.
16VOD TIL that the "Fi" in "WiFi" doesn't mean anything (ie, Wireless Fidelity). The creators just called it that because it rhymed with "HiFi".
V5x0 TIL 3 big game hunters, inspired in part by Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game,” invented Paintball, “a game where they would stalk and hunt each other— to recreate the same adrenaline rush from hunting animals”