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TIL that the Seminole Tribe of Florida generated so much revenue from opening tax-free smoke shops and organizing high-stakes bingo games that in 2007 they bought Hard Rock Cafe International. The tribe still owns it today, with 180 Restaurants, 24 Hotels, and 11 Casinos in 74 different countries.

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R7pga TIL John Hughes filmed "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" concurrently to save time and money. He even used the same closed high school for the interior scenes, but built a second library in the gym for "Breakfast Club" as the original was too small.
0wX1 TIL North Korea has used Nazi-style human experiments on its citizens in the past and is unknown if they still do so today.
Rx0Q TIL 80% of Japan is considered uninhabitable
OMvY TIL that in Germany it is not illegal to attemp a prison escape. The reason is because they believe it is “basic human instinct” to want to be free, and should therefore not be punished.
8eLBb TIL about "General Average," a 19th century maritime law requiring all stakeholders (cargo owners, shippers, etc.) to share losses if part of a ship or cargo is sacrificed in an emergency to save the whole.