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TIL Africa accounts for just 3% of the world's trade

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97Lr TIL Canada has phased out pennies, stores can advertise whatever price they want then choose whether to round up or down to the nearest 5 cents at the register.
jVyn TIL that during prohibition a man used a WW1 German UBoat and would shoot torpedos filled with booze onto beaches
loQ6K TIL that the United States hired former Wehrmacht Chief of Staff Franz Halder to write their official history of the Eastern Front of WWII to downplay Nazi war crimes in order to make the Soviets appear as bad as possible and was even awarded by the American government for his work
VeGZ TIL that the U.S. put strict regulations on steam engines because they were dangerous to operate. To get around this law, one company made boilers full of boiling gasoline instead of water.
QNDM TIL That there is a well documented fan theory that “The Shining” was secretly Stanley Kubrick’s way of telling his audience he filmed the fake lunar landing.