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TIL that 5 minutes before John McCain’s ship was set to leave Rio de Janeiro in 1957, he showed up in a gull-wing Mercedes driven by Brazil’s top model, who kissed him before he climbed aboard.

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oRrpL TIL that Wasabi is one of the most medicinally active plants on Earth and one of the 7 main culinary ingredients in Japan
EOrV TIL the NFL earns revenues of $9 billion and doesn’t pay taxes. This is because in 1966, the phrase which allowed “business leagues, chambers of commerce, real-estate boards, boards of trade” as non-profits was changed to include “or profession football leagues”.
OGe96 TIL Getting Tattoos in South Korea is Considered a Medical Procedure Done Only by Doctors
ANDo TIL that the US drinking age was raised from 18 to 21 due to the efforts of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). They successfully lobbied congress to create a law that imposed a federal penalty on any state that did not comply.
Jj4v TIL Rage Against the Machine played a free show in London as a reward for making “Killing in the Name” the top single in the UK during Christmas 2009