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TIL that on a trip to America in 1989, USSR leader Boris Yeltsin decided to stop into a regular US grocery store. After seeing the amount and variety of food available to US consumers, he lamented what communism had “…done to our poor peole”.

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a88Zb TIL about Kendall Myers, the grandson of the first full-time editor of National Geographic (credited w/ having built the magazine into the iconic publication that it is today) and also great grandson of Alexander Graham Bell is serving a life sentence in the U.S.'s only supermax prison for espionage
awj6M TIL an Australian guy shot his mate dead so he could steal his mates' $40000 worth of honey
7rYap TIL a guy bought a motel to watch guests have sex from the attic above their rooms. 30 years, never got caught. Even witnessed a murder.
GA1KE TIL Scientists have tried to answer the question "Where have all the bloody teaspoons gone?" and discovered they have a half life of 81 days.
neOBP TIL about the Second Congo War, the deadliest conflict since World War II. Nine African countries and around twenty-five armed groups became involved in the war, with casualties ranging from 2.7 to 5.4 million deaths.