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TIL the TLD for commercial websites in the Cook islands is .co.ck

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LQr6P TIL Beer was banned in Iceland until 1989-Iceland went through a prohibition of beer which began in 1915. Every March 1st, the country celebrates “Bjórdagurinn” or “Beer Day” commemorating the end of a 74-year beer ban.
LkA7r TIL the Vatican has Astronomical Observatories in Italy and Arizona and were involved with a project to map the stars in the late 1890s
NX71 TIL in a speech to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Iranian Vice President said that Zionists ordered gynaecologists to kill black babies, caused the Bolshevik revolution and control the international drug trade
0draA TIL that the last television ever manufactured in the U.S. made its way off the assembly line in July 2005 at the former Magnavox production headquarters in Greeneville, Tennessee. The TV remains on public display in a history museum in the town.
Y7Xnd TIL: GPS satellites are far enough away from earth that time moves slower for them, so they are pre-corrected to compensate for relativity using Einstein's calculations.