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TIL in 1998, there was a Japanese realty show that was about a comedian named Eggplant who lived in a one-room apartment and had to win $10,000 worth of prizes from magazine contests to win the show. All the food he ate and clothes he wore had to be won also. It was a gigantic hit show in Japan.

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MekWm TIL Andorra is ruled by two Co-princes, the President of France and the Bishop of Urdell. Up until 1993, Andorra would pay a tribute of ~$460 to the French President on odd numbered years, while on even numbered years, the Bishop would receive ~$12, plus six hams, six cheeses, and six live chickens.
EgZr0 TIL Ramanujan’s work has been analysed and studied for decades since his death as a source of new mathematical ideas. Researchers are still discovering mere comments in his mathematical writings turning out to be profound that remained unsuspected until nearly a century after his death.
D1ABg TIL documents presented by a Pakistani official were found to forged because they were written in Calibri supposedly in 2006, but Calibri was only included in Microsoft Office 2007
kJVLB TIL Costco sells more than 100 million hot dogs a year. In 2015 it sold four times as many as are sold in all the major league baseball stadiums combined.
BbAL TIL of Theophrastus Phillipus Auroleus Bombastus von Hohenheim, a physician from the 15th century who said “All things are poisonous and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not poisonous”. He is regarded as the father of toxicology.