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9RGM TIL- IKEA has been offering solar-powered portable shelters for 3 years
g6M8 TIL When Fidel Castro seized power of Cuba He banned the board game ‘Monopoly’ and ordered every set to be destroyed because He perceived it as the pure embodiment of capitalism
l78Pa TIL that US is a neighboring country of South Korea and Japan because of Guam, a full fledge US territory with 168 thousands inhabitants despite it's not even on the same side of the Earth with continental US.
4XOwR TIL that Charles Manson's mother sold him for a pitcher of beer to a woman who wanted to have children. His uncle had to find the woman so that he could get his nephew back.
6nK7 TIL Russia didn’t consider beer to be an alcoholic beverage until 2011. Before then it was classified as a soft drink.