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TIL About The Billion Dollar Japanese Shrimp Ponzi Scheme

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M7DX7 TIL in Mexico, alcohol sales are banned on election days, and sometimes several days before.
e0rdb TIL In 1958 nuclear weapons were proposed as a tool for petroleum extraction. The plan was to detonate 100 nuclear bombs in the Alberta Oil Sands, thus adding heat and decreasing viscosity, the bitumen could then be easily pumped out. The project was put on hiatus due to risk of Soviet espionage.
b9QEZ TIL “strengthed” and “scraunched” are both the longest words with only one syllable.
7xXp TIL Kodak discovered the US was testing atomic bombs because the corn husks used for packing material were fogging film because they had been exposed to radiation.
K1eQ TIL Nestle pays only $2.25 to bottle and sell a million liters of water