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TIL In Qatar, a special license is required for people to be able to purchase pork or alcohol products. Pork and alcohol products are also subject to a 100% "sin tax".

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P1XDV TIL Tom Petty and Roger McGuinn recorded a song called King of the Hill, 17 years before Petty appeared as Lucky Kleinschmidt on the TV show King of the Hill
VMJJp TIL that, when child actor Jackie Coogan turned 18 he found out all his money (around $68 million) had been spent by his mother who argued "No promises were ever made to give Jackie anything. Every dollar a kid earns before he is 21 belongs to his parents."
QNdYe TIL After losing the 1960 Presidential Election, Nixon ran for governor of California in 1962 and lost, leading to his "last press conference" where he said "you don't have Nixon to kick around any more, because gentleman, this is my last press conference." He would win the presidency 6 years later.
v6j8 TIL that in 1890 an Oberlin College professor gave a lecture on then-rare aluminum, stating ‘if anyone could make this on a commercial scale, he would be a benefactor to the world and would also make a great fortune.’ In attendance was Charles Hall, who took him up on the challenge – and succeeded.
naDb TIL… In 1977, a 23-year old graduate student stumbled upon a compound with effects similar to heroin. He made a bunch and shared it with his friends to get high, except the batch he made was contaminated with a toxic byproduct that left them all with debilitating Parkinson’s Disease within a week.