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TIL about the long-standing Memphis Mayoral Candidate, Prince Mongo, who claims to have been born on the planet Zambodia around 333 years ago

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7RrL TIL That most people in Cuba still drive old American cars from the 1950’s. There are about 60,000 classic American cars in Cuba today and if the embargo were to be lifted, the Cuban people could make a fortune off of these “Yank Tanks”
mxyxR TIL that one of the attempts to find El Dorado, the mythical city of gold, involved draining a lake using a bucket chain of laborers. Over three months, the lake level fell 3 meters and only recovered about $100K worth of gold.
6EQ6W TIL that Britain incurred so much debt fighting World War II that it didn't make its final loan payment until 2006.
RN8 TIL the Molotov Cocktail is not Russian, despite the obvious Russian name. The petrol bomb was mass produced by the Finnish in the Winter War, and the term itself was coined to mock Soviet propaganda.
GpG4 TIL Bryan Cranston was actually taught how to make meth by the DEA in preparation for his role in Breaking Bad