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TIL that the domain name ".tv" is the domain representing the country of Tuvalu. In 1998, Tuvalu signed a contract for the exclusive marketing rights for the domain name, allowing it to finally raise enough money to join the United Nations.

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mxk7p TIL An Italian economics professor Guido Menzio's flight was delayed because while he was solving a differential equation on the plane, the woman seated next to him called a flight attendant and the pilot asked Menzio to get off the plane and was questioned by airport security.
Q8jp TIL that China has an obsession with cloning Western cities. They cloned Paris and it’s a ghost town.
WWN9 TIL there’s a 47 year old burger encased in resin that’s archived in the Alberta Legislature Building
eK8n TIL South African Department of Health Distributed 44 million condoms, stapling each one to instruction cards written in the country’s 11 official languages.
yQ1gp TIL about Leonard Stogel, a music promoter and manager who died in the crash of American Airlines Flight 191. Both his parents had previously died in the crash of American Airlines Flight 1.