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TIL if you’re an American with over $4,436 in your bank account, you’re above average.

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e0ey5 TIL that during the Soviet Union, government officials made a deal with Pepsi to allow Pepsi into the Soviet Union, being the first foreign product sanctioned for sale in the Soviet Union. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Coca-Cola was favored because Pepsi was associated with the Soviet Union.
PDPg TIL that chimpanzees fight wars like humans. Happend 1974-1978 in Gombe National Park. It is called the “Four Year War of Gombe”. Two parties fought, and one party won the war by extermination of the other. Jane Goodall observed this war and was frightend by the brutality.
ADeYa TIL Saskatchewan was a hotbed of LSD research in the 1950s with a 50% success rate in treating alcoholism and and architect using LSD used the infamous hospitals to make future institutions more comfortable for the mentally ill.
4m7J TIL that London cabbies study for years to take an exam called “The Knowledge of London,” requiring memorization of over 25,000 streets and many more businesses and landmarks.
wKAP TIL that in 1960, Japanese Socialist Party chairman Inejiro Asanuma was assinated during a televised debate. With a Samurai sword.