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TIL North Koreans built Africa’s tallest statue in Senegal

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l7Mba TIL: Average american toilets clog far more than European ones (by design choice) and that's why they are always talking about plungers.
mRJE TIL Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini knew each other personally and were good friends until they had a falling out when Houdini failed to prove to Doyle that his magic tricks were illusions. Doyle refused to accept this as he believed Houdini actually had supernatural powers.
KYL66 TIL that, while not very common, German-speaking countries have vomit sinks in a very, very few amount of clubs, bars, frat houses and supervised injection sites for drug users called a few different names such as Speibecken or Kotzbecken
9w7Wp TIL of the 1950's Quiz Show Scandal. It was discovered that several televised quiz shows were fixing the winners, leading to public outrage. In response, Congress passed a federal law that outlaws any contest or game with "prearranged or predetermined" winners or an "intent to deceive the audience."
66bQ TIL “… economists have pointed out that if all the money spent on federal antipoverty programs were given to [the poor], a family of four would have an annual income near $70,000. [They] get less than half the money [given] in their name; most goes to fund the bureaucracies that run the programs.”