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TIL that Nigeria has overtaken Ireland in Guinness sales and is the number 2 consumer of Guinness world wide

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peKN TIL that sliced bread was briefly banned in the USA in 1943.
70Mp TIL there is a satellite orbiting Earth that is predicted to re-enter the atmosphere in 8.4 million years, carrying a message addressed to the beings/humans and civilizations of the future.
wxlJ TIL there is a 99 year old panhandler in Bulgaria that gives all of the money he collects to local orphanages, once giving over $24,000 in a single donation.
xRpg TIL in 1963 a 16 year old sent a four-question survey to 150 well-known authors (75 of which replied) in order to prove to his English teacher that writers don’t intentionally add symbolic content to their books.
E1KOP TIL in 1974, there was a hilarious Turkish ripoff of Star Trek