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TIL that allowing her flight attendants to wear bikinis to work has made an airline CEO in Vietnam that country’s first female billionaire

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wGKM TIL That after three days of discovering Kurt Cobain’s body, the stereo at the scene of his death was still on with an R.E.M. CD in place suggesting Kurt Cobain killed himself while listening to R.E.M.
mxJRO TIL Everyone that Madonna name-checks in the song Vogue is now dead
GDWQ TIL: In 2006 a Norweigan coach gave a ski pole to a Canadian, allowing her to go on to win a silver medal. Canadians citizens were so touched they collectively gave him 5.2 tonnes of Maple Syrup.
1gJ4 TIL that in The Beatles song “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” neither George Harrison nor John Lennon plays the lead guitar part. Eric Clapton does.
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