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TIL that Hong Kong is home to more skyscrapers than New York, Chicago, and Mexico City COMBINED.

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VBKp4 TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, was featured in a 1998 television advertisement for Pizza Hut.
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