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TIL More people have been to the moon than have won Takeshi's Castle

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7reKb Dubai is a global business hub and luxury tourist destination that boasts the world’s tallest building and a police force that drive supercars. So how did it get so rich?
oWPK TIL Citizens of the UK must pay a yearly license fee to own TV sets receiving live TV broadcasts at £145.50 for color and £49.00 for black and white.
Mem9K TIL about Venus' flower basket. In Japan this sponge is a symbol of eternal love as each basket commonly contains a pair of mated shrimp. It also creates glass fibre by extracting silica from sea water
woPeY TIL Main Street in San Francisco is not a centrally located street, because it’s actually named for a person: 19th century businessman Charles Main
xGOg TIL Japan has had heated roads for 56 years which use shosetsu (snow melting) pipe system using the heat energy of groundwater to melt snow on roads