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TIL Novartis sued South Africa to prevent it from importing cheaper AIDS drugs

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jNW5Q TIL Vyacheslav Molotov, the namesake of the Molotov cocktail, was the last surviving major participant of the Russian Revolutions of 1917. He died in 1986 at the age of 96.
NElJ TIL At 11AM every morning, a group of five ducks (led by a Duckmaster) descend from their penthouse suite to the lobby of the Peabody hotel in Memphis. After playing in the fountain, at 5PM they leave and return to their rooms. This has been going on for over 70 years.
gMEXW TIL that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries telephone companies used existing barbed wire fences to transmit electrical phone signals to rural areas to save money due to the price of phone lines.
xVW6w TIL that the ice pick used to kill Leon Trotsky is on display at the International Spy Museum in Washington, District of Columbia
R7G6 TIL that Mexico threatened to stop buying US corn unless they could sell the US avocados.