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TIL that internet is really scarce in Cuba and people gather at designated public places to access it

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owwo TIL billionaire Mark Cuban once said he wouldn’t hire the head of NBA officiating “to manage a Dairy Queen.” Dairy Queen offered to let Cuban manage one of their stores, which he did for one day.
8epp8 TIL that the 2003 Somaliland presidential election, which was hailed as one of the freest and most transparent democratic exercises ever staged in the Horn of Africa, saw the candidate from a minority clan win by a margin of only 0.00016%, or 80 votes, over two other contenders
N7LOE TIL that the intestines (Goldbeater’s skins) of 250,000-450,000 cows where needed to build one WW1 Zeppelin.
J1mN8 TIL that algae are not plants and are protists (eukaryotes that are not plants, fungi or animals)
WaQ8 TIL that the government of the Czech Republic has renamed the country “Czechia”