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TIL: Bolivia is the only country where cocaine is truly legal and even has a cocaine bar where you can order actual coke with your cocktail

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Bo1r TIL that in reference to the biblical figure, Onan, who was condemned for the sin of masturbation, noted satirist and wit Dorothy Parker alleges she also named her canary Onan “because he spilled his seed on the ground”.
mxX7p TIL that the Where’s Waldo book series was released with different names internationally. In Britain you were looking for Wally, Germans searched for tiny Walter, the French scoured the pages for petite Charlie, and if you were a young South African you tried to spot a little Willie.
WOGL TIL that Magnum and Magnum XL condoms are no bigger than standard size trojan condoms. It is a psychological method of getting customers to pay a premium.
awgLM TIL that for the film "Deliverance", Warner Bros. took the song "Feudin' Banjos" and renamed it "Dueling Banjos", to avoid giving the original composer credit. He sued and received "substantial royalties".
4k9JJ TIL that Postal codes in Slovakia and Czechia are inherited from Czechoslovakia and do not overlap. Czech part had areas starting from 1 to 7 and Slovak part had 8,9 and 0. Old system was good enough and there was no reason for authorities to change it after the countries separated in 1993.