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TIL the internet in cuba is so bad that cubans had to invent their own

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PNmn TIL that for around 100 years in the 16th/17th centuries, almost all European cartographers charted the position of ‘Frisland’, a North Atlantic island that didn’t actually exist.
N7bnP TIL about Brian, the mentally ill Bonobo who was prescribed Paxil to help with his anxiety but taken off of it a few years later after he started sharing it amongst the other apes
vL6K TIL In 2010 Kodak discontinued the famed Kodachrome film. The last roll was shot by acclaimed National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry best known for his portrait ‘Afghan Girl’. The last 36 slides captured images around New York and a tribe in India on the verge of extinction.
XEDR6 TIL that a man walked into a bar and was never seen again. He was not recorded to have left the bar according to security cameras.
D1mlj TIL that beer was banned in Iceland until March 1, 1989, which is now celebrated annually as Beer Day. Iceland outlawed all forms of alcohol in 1915, but within 20 years had unbanned all alcoholic beverages except for beer.