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TIL six years after the fall of Communism in Poland, consumption of alcohol grew to five times the average levels of Western countries, and one liquor store for every 300 people serviced the demand.

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47Mo TIL that of over 7,300 U.S. state legislators, only one, a Nebraskan, is openly atheistic
xV7gg TIL During the Cold War the US considered airdropping enormous condoms labeled “Medium” onto the Soviets, to demoralize them against an anatomically superior American Army.
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