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TIL that Cuba has one of the world’s highest literacy rates

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W70g4 TIL that the last remaining Chi-Chi’s restaurant is located in Vienna, Austria. Germany and Belgium closed their locations in 2022.
R54ma TIL "gene guns" (referred to formally as biolistic particle delivery systems) exist. They work by firing small, metal bullets coated with genetic material at a target. While normally used on plants due to the relative ease of transformation, they have also been tested on animal cell cultures.
DDEg TIL Nelson Mandela was long time friends with Moammar Gaddafi and Fidel Castro.
EaAW TIL Americans use an average of 433 million miles of toilet paper each year, enough to stretch to the sun and back
a7v0 TIL that in Saudia Arabia a wife is entitled to divorce her husband if he does not supply her with fresh coffee.