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TIL That Nokia Started As A paper mill company

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6ERKw TIL that the first Spearmint Rhino strip clubs were converted from a chain of children's restaurants called the Peppermint Elephant.
omjY TIL that in La Paz, Bolivia, there are isolated “hotel rooms” where alcoholics can, for a small fee, go to drink themselves to death without fear of interruption. Aptly, they are known as “Elephant Graveyards”.
wL0GM Today I learned that Al Capone Ran a Soup Kitchen During the Great Depression
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