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TIL 20-yr-old Ahmed Alwan gives customers free stuff (with approval from his father) from his family's Bronx bodega if they can solve a simple math problem . For example, he'll say: "What's 9 x 9 - 5?" and then you get 5 seconds to grab anything from chips to speakers to hookahs.

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