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TIL India is considered the “pharmacy of the developing world” and delivers affordable medicines to poor people all around the world by exporting 50% of of its $10bn annual generic medicine production.

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b9n4a TIL that following Kobain's death, Dave Grohl started Foo Fighters as a small side project. When asked later about the name, he responded "Had I actually considered this to be a career, I probably would have called it something else, because it's the stupidest fucking band name in the world."
aDWy TIL that Rolex sells more than watches, they sell sand.
oBwRA TIL, the name Aceh(an Indonesian province) is actually an acronym for Arabic-Chinese-European-Hindu. [Source: Extreme Economies by Richard Davies]
X0eMQ TIL that China had a legal ban on the production, import, and sale of video game consoles and arcade machines from 2000 2015. This ultimately led to a flourishing PC gaming market.
v1Zkr TIL of an newly discovered organism called Lithoredo abatanica that eats stone and excretes sand. It is a shipworm, a group of burrowing animals known for eating woods and related to clams, but so different from known examples that it is both a new species and genus.