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TIL Nigeria drinks more Guinness than Ireland!!!

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v1PWB TIL that in 2016 India gave its citizens less than 4 hours notice that their two largest bills (worth about $8 and $16) would no longer be legal tender. They were only allowed to exchange a max of ₹2000-4500 ($31-70) per person per day, and ATMs were still running out of cash up to 5 months later.
lO67 TIL: 73939133 is the largest known prime number that, if you keep removing digits from the right, will always leave a prime number.
B6Nr TIL that in 2002, the candidates for the election of Warsaw’s mayor were each given the same save of SimCity 3000. The map resembled Warsaw, had 32.7k citizens, and they got 60k simoleons. The competition was won by Lech Kaczynski who won the elections afterwards. He soon became President of Poland.
v1Q9j TIL that Johnny Cash once got into a fight with an ostrich and lost. The ostrich broke two of his ribs and left him with a massive cut on his stomach.
VMYl0 TIL there’s a comapny that specializes in custom World War I & II weapons and mini figurines compatiable with ®LEGO