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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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7DML TIL that it takes 58 actual years to research “Rally Time Reduction” in Game of War: Fire Age, unless you use in-app purchases.
M4Jm TIL That Dennis “Chip” Wilson named his company Lululemon because “Japanese peoples’ inability to pronounce the letter "L”, and the extra effort they would have to make to pronounce the name" and “It’s funny to watch them try and say it,”
O8M4 TIL if you are an American who finds bird shit on an island not under another countries’ jurisdiction, you may claim that island for America.
GKe5 TIL AirBnB is causing entire neighborhoods to become ghost towns, as landlords push out tenants to make way for overnight visitors.
mO7p TIL In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.”