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TIL the eternal flame at Arc de Triomphe in Paris has only been extinguished once: by drunken Mexican football fans who urinated it after the final of 1998 World Cup, when France defeated Brazil

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GYrX5 TIL that in the 90's a strip club manager nicknamed Tarzan orchestrated the sale of a Soviet submarine to a Colombian drug cartel
r5po TIL that in 2011, a 75 year-old woman accidentally cut the fiber optic cable that provides internet to 90% of Armenia.
WkX5d TIL: Tobacco use in Indonesia is almost entirely determined by gender: 76% of men smoke, while only 3.6% of women smoke.
V9G TIL - Stores cannot charge you a fee or set a minimum limit for Mastercard or Visa. Refuse to pay these and threaten to report the merchant if they do. They can be fined $1,000s for violations under their agreement. http://bit.ly/LgDNoM
graRD TIL that in 1976, when the NBA was merging with the ABA, Ozzie and Daniel Silna turned down an offer to sell their ABA team for $3.3 million. Instead, they negotiated a deal to receive a share of the NBA media rights in perpetuity. Through this deal they eventually earned about $800 million.