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TIL that WWE holds a Pay Per View wrestling event called "Elimination Chamber", except it is known as "No Way Out" in Germany to avoid connotations of the gas chambers used during the Holocaust in WW2.

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1g8P TIL Sears used to sell entire houses in a DIY kit
MeWWW TIL: The national flag of Nepal is the only non-quadrilateral national flag in the world
b98oa TIL although the moon is the brightest object in Earth's sky, its albedo or reflectivity is actually quite low, about the same as worn asphalt.
D1bpY TIL that in China 209 BC two generals were going to be late which was punishable by death. They realized that the punish for rebellion was the same as the one for being late, so they decided to rebel and created an uprising.
JYDM4 TIL that in 1823, Gregor MacGregor created a national currency and flag of the fictional republic of Poyais and got 250 investor colonists to buy land and travel across the world to a jungle island where most of them died.