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TIL Africa’s tallest apartment complex has a dark central void space, its first 3 stories filled up with accumulated garbage - it has also “developed a reputation for defenestrations – accidents, suicides and otherwise.”

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wvD7 TIL that a nudity war began on Brazilian TV in 1990. A network won top ratings with a prime-time soap opera with full frontal nudity; another fought back with uncut nudity in films. A third television network instead aired high-quality literary adaptations, and had the worst ratings in its history.
lOjr TIL a medication called DRACO (developed by MIT researchers) could potentially cure you from any known virus from herpes to the flu if they had the support and funding to continue it.
E19Kp TIL a beer called ‘Snake Venom’ by Scottish brewery Brewmeister is the world’s strongest beer. It contains a massive 67.5% alcohol by volume. (Vodka, in comparison, is typically 80 proof, or 40% alcohol).
P1x1e TIL that sandwiches were invented by John Montagu in the town of Sandwich, England. Montagu invented sandwiches as he was so obsessed with gambling that he usually didn’t have time to sit for a meal, so he often ordered his valet to bring him a piece of meat tucked in between two pieces of bread.
JYPLv TIL China has planted over 500 thousand square kilometers of forest since 1978 to combat the expansion of the Gobi Desert making it the largest forest plantation in the world. It’s expected to reach 4,500 km by 2050