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TIL TVs were banned in Bhutan until June of 1999
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TIL that two PS1 games (FIFA 01 and Gran Turismo 2) have scratch & sniff disks. The FIFA 01 disc smelled like a football pitch, while the Gran Turismo 2 disc smelled like car tires.
MWYK
TIL Dolph Lundgren had a Fulbright scholarship to MIT to study chemical engineering, and road-tripped up from NYC on a motorcycle and rolled onto campus with his then girlfriend Grace Jones on the back.
DokY
TIL that Finland hosts the Wife Carrying World Championships every year. In which men attempt to carry their wives through an obstacle course the fastest, with the grand prize being his woman’s weight in beer.
WkJd9
TIL a Pennsylvania teen used a loophole in laws to run for the Governor of Kansas despite never having lived there.
M7Q08
TIL Major General Orde Wingate, who would later devise and lead the Chindit raids in Burma, once persuaded an Italian commander in Abyssinia to surrender his 12,000 strong force to Wingate's 2000 man force, despite having been ordered by his superiors to cease pursuing the Italians.