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TIL that Bill Gates is richer than 140 nations

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DQoPv TIL Belgian authorities destroyed over 2,300 cans of an American beer branded as ‘The Champagne of Beers’ because the beer’s slogan was considered a misuse of the term “Champagne”, which is legally protected and reserved exclusively for the sparkling wine produced in the Champagne region of France.
78xQr TIL Victor Garber, who starred as Jesus in "Godspell" and Thomas Andrews in the "Titanic" movie, was cast in the first off-Broadway production of the musical "Assassins," by Stephen Sondheim, in 1990.
yVd8M TIL that in 1934 a board game called Toward Soviet America was the opposite of Monopoly. The goal was to get rid of the rich and powerful, end oppression, and seize the means of production. The game did not catch on.
ZK9R TIL Chunosuke Matsuyama, a Japanese Seamen, sent a message in a bottle in 1784 that his ship had wrecked. It washed up in 1935 in the village where he was born.
MerrW Today I learned that a Czech cult member was caught torturing and cannibalizing her children when a neighbor's baby monitor accidentally picked up a video signal showing a boy chained up in a cellar