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TIL China controls the companies that between them provide all the electricity to Lima, which is home to a third of the country’s population

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QNJaE TIL in effort to keep morale high for WWII troops fighting in the Pacific, the British built a floating brewery and dispatched it to the South Seas
YpePx TIL about Ralph Lauren, the billionaire fashion mogul. His last name was Lifshitz but he changed it to Lauren when he was 16 because it had the word 'shit' in it and other children used to make fun of him.
KGjB TIL Katrina and the Waves earned approximately $1,000,000 a year between 2000 and 2010 for their 1985 hit “Walking on Sunshine”.
Rwaj TIL: The worlds oldest veteran is 108, drinks whiskey every morning, smokes cigars, and drives widows to church on Sunday.
pLo8 TIL of “mummy brown”, a once-popular paint pigment made from ground-up Egyptian mummies. It was produced well into the 20th century, and only disappeared when the manufacturers ran out of mummies.