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TIL Angry Birds and Clash of Clans have helped rejuvenate Finland’s economy after Nokia’s downfall

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ZVQG TIL Tanks were originally called tanks as a way of misleading the enemy into thinking they were water tanks shipped to areas of the battle where water was scarce.
R5dM8 TIL the world's largest shopping mall is in Iran. (Iran also has the 4th largest.) Kuwait has the second largest. China holds 3 spots in the top 10. The largest mall in the US, The Mall of America, is the twelfth largest worldwide.
DQAbY TIL if AirPods was it’s own company, it would be the 32nd largest company in the US
XEoZQ TIL in 2013, Coca-Cola cancelled a promotion that paired randomly generated English and French words inside their caps until a lady received one that said "You Retard"
WkwwL TIL when Stephen King was run over by a car in 1999 the driver apologised and said he'd never even gotten a parking ticket before. King, lying injured, replied: 'well, I've never been hit by a car before'.