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TIL Only 2 countries in the world allow advertising prescription medication to consumers, the US and New Zealand

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R79rQ TIL Researchers found that the best way to protect against heart disease was to drink beer daily, or almost daily, but to limit consumption to between half a litre and one litre a day
xVmo5 TIL in 1958 Cuba became the second country in the world to have color TV broadcasts. However, the Cuban Revolution made them end in 1959 after broadcasting stations were seized, and Cuban television then remained solely black and white until 1975.
GAYbG TIL: In 1937 the entirety of the Soviet Central Institute of Aerodynamics were arrested meaning that many WW2 planes were designed from prison
R7GE9 TIL that, right now, 9 languages a year, or one every 40 days, goes extinct and soon we will be losing our linguistic heritage at the rate of 26 languages each year—one every two weeks.
gr604 TIL German Chocolate Cake is not German in origin, but is named for an English-American chocolate maker Samuel German