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TIL that before the advent of elevators, the wealthiest people would live on the lowest floors. The higher the floor, the poorer the tenants.

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e0Xk6 TIL that in Sri Lanka, by law, women are STILL prohibited from buying alcohol! The law was briefly abandoned in 2018, only for the president at that time to step in and reactivate this archaic law again.
nONB TIL that after Hurricane Katrina, Cuba & Venezuela were the first countries to offer assistance, pledging over $1 million, several mobile hospitals, water treatment plants, canned food, bottled water, heating oil, 1,100 doctors and 26.4 metric tons of medicine -but were rejected by the US Government
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