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TIL There are only 22 countries in the world that England hasn’t invaded

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GYG9g TIL that in the 1960s, the Soviet Union sent snowplows instead of tractors to Guinea to win them over and that the US government sent parkas to help the government of the Philipines instead of emergency medical military aid during the Reagan era.
xVAQk TIL President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda hold the Guinness World Record for "Greatest Robbery of a Government". They stole hundreds of millions of dollars causing the total national loss from between $5 and $10 billion
kJo1E TIL: the legalisation of CB radio in 1981 briefly caused a craze for the devices in the UK: even ranking among the most popular Christmas gifts that year.
6Eymm TIL the origin of the expression "The whole 9 yards" is unknown. It may have referred to: the length of pieces of fabric/garments, WWII aircraft machine gun belts, Football, OR ritual disembowelment
4k8XJ TIL A Canadian hockey team hasn't won the NHL Stanley Cup finals since 1993