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TIL: Rum is subsidized by US taxes

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rDxx TIL that in China, real-estate developers hire white people to boost businesses because they make “the place feel classier.”
EXVx TIL There is a Museum of Broken Relationships in Croatia; you can go and leave there personal objects left by former lovers, accompanied by brief descriptions.
kJxZ7 TIL that despite his worsening ALS condition, Jason Becker managed to finish recording guitar for David Lee Roth's A Little Ain't Enough album, and has lived over 34 years and released multiple albums since his diagnosis in 1989
5VwAR TIL about the Crazy Horse Memorial, the World’s Largest Mountain Carving which has been actively under construction since 1948 in South Dakota
WwMX TIL that British prisoners of war during WW2 were a huge morale drain on the German people. And often they’d get their captors arrested by filing fallacious complaints about their treatment in the camps.