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TIL North Korea Has a State-owned Beer Brewery That Was Purchased From a British Brewery Called Ushers of Trowbridge and Renamed Taedonggang Brewery Named After the Taedong River in Pyongyang

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v1kp8 TIL, 11 GM buses were used for filming the 1994 film Speed. While the ramp gap jump was filmed in one take, some other buses had the front cut off for filming of inside shots of the bus. These scenes took place on California freeways.
gMLby TIL that professional footballer Manfred Starke is actually a Namibian native and plays for their national team
LQVb9 TIL: In 1962, a 10 year old found a radioactive capsule and took it home in his pocket and left it in a kitchen cabinet. He died 38 days later, his pregnant mom died 3 months after that, then his 2 year old sister a month later. The father survived, and only then did authorities found out why.
A7Ww TIL:We write $10, instead of 10$ (as it is spoken) to prevent forging “I owe you 10.00$” can easily be changed to “I owe you 910.00$” but “I owe you $10.00” can at most be increased by less than a penny to “I owe you $10.0099999”
Bgb0L TIL about Gil Cisneros, a congressman from California who began his political career in 2018. He first gained national attention in 2010 by winning a $266 million lottery weeks after being laid off from his job and using that money to establish scholarships for Latino students.