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TIL that in Russia, posers can rent iPhone boxes or bouquet of flowers to pretend they've got one

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epe7D TIL the live action/animated 2007-15 Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise grossed $1.4 billion against a budget of just $300 million.
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e0QPb TIL Swiss neutrality dictates that Switzerland is not to be involved in armed or political conflicts between other states.
MeDdB TIL That China produces 58% of the world's peaches, amounting to 25 million tonnes of the fruit
mxN5R TIL that in 1982, Indian composer-musician Charanjit Singh combined electronic disco and classical ragas. In the process, he created an anachronistically modern sound -- anticipating the Acid House genre almost a decade before its existence.