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TIL Nigeria drinks more Guinness than Ireland

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VBVPG TIL of Kim Hyon-hui - a north Korean agent who killed 115 people in a plane bombing. Originally sentenced to death, she was pardoned after less than a year and has been free ever since
9v0G TIL chisels used to be handed out to people visiting Stonehenge, so they could chip away at the ancient monument to get their own souvenirs.
X04AD TIL Lego was saved from bankruptcy by the release of the Bionicle
ljyK TIL that The Pirate Bay’s logo features the “Home Taping Is Killing Music” logo. A slogan from the 1980’s stating that recording music on blank tapes is illegal.
grxEW TIL Borat's first movie was banned in Kazakhstan but when the second was released they made a tourism campaign around "Very Nice!"