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TIL Wikitravel specifically warns visitors to Kazakhstan not to mention Borat.

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p87GZ TIL of an old brand of cigarettes named "Death". Slogans on the packaging included phrases such as "Let Us Be The Nail In Your Coffin", "The Grim Reaper Don't Come Cheaper", and "Cigarettes are addicting and debilitating. If you don't smoke, don't start. If you do smoke, quit."
VpmG TIL Liberia was established by citizens of the United States as a colony for former African American slaves and their free black descendants.
W7n8 TIL That Jack Daniels will sell you a barrel of whiskey for about $10,000.
KONOw TIL the Bergamot Orange (used to give Earl Grey Tea its distinct citrus flavor) is exclusively grown in Italy... yet it has never been (and apparently cannot be) grown in Bergamo, Italy.
KYQDE TIL Olympic runner Carl Lewis was drafted by both the Chicago Bulls and the Dallas Cowboys in 1984