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TIL the reason menthol cigarettes were not included in the flavored cigarette ban in 2009 in the US was that the Congressional Black Caucus fought to make them exempt.

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nAb TIL The Japanese yakuza provided disaster relief for both the Kobe and Tohoku earthquakes.
ADjgw TIL that Albert Einstein spent more time as a Swiss citizen (54 years) than as a German citizen (36 years). In third place comes his American citizenship (15 years).
R6V9 TIL anorexic people angle their bodies sideways even when passing through doorways that are much wider than themselves.
yVXlp TIL China hadn't discriminated homosexuality for the most part of the history until homophobia was brought into it during the westernization movement starting from late Qing dynasty.
x6A90 TIL only two countries have money that are non-decimal currencies: Mauritania, where 1 ouguiya = 5 khoums, and Madagascar, where 1 ariary = 5 iraimbilanja. There was an attempt to undecimalise units of time during the french revolution but it failed.