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TIL In Costa Rica streets aren’t named and houses aren’t numbered

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QJ0Ep TIL that WiFi does not stand for Wireless Fidelity - it stands for nothing. It's a word coined by a marketing firm that means nothing.
ddB9 TIL that America isn’t the only country to say “soccer” instead of “football”. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and several countries in Southern Africa also do so.
awBbo TIL A beggar was caught outside a mosque in Kuwait telling worshipers that he badly needed cash and that he had no home. Since it is illegal, he was arrested and police discovered he had over 500,000 Kuwaiti Dinars in his bank account ($1,650,000)
jA7p TIL when the American Dairy Association was extending its “Got Milk?” ads into Mexico, the Spanish translation ended up as “Are you lactating?”
Y7RKW TIL that Liechtenstein sued Czechia for their stolen lands and castles they had owned for almost 700 years before their real estates were confiscated in Czechoslovakia after World War II under the so-called “Beneš decrees”. Czechia declined their claim, because of ethnic reasons.