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TIL 5-star hotels in Asia are required to offer free toothpaste to guests. This requirement does not apply in the US, where even some prisoners have to pay for toothpaste at the commissary.

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M7JXb TIL of the Affair of the Dancing Lamas, where a filmmaker got in trouble with Tibetan authorities after they got offended at Tibetan lamas promoting his documentary with dances. It’s cited as a reason for Tibet receiving less reforms and why it was less prepared for the Chinese invasion of 1950.
Brxme TIL There's a building in Osaka that has a highway running through it as tenants
OGnP4 TIL Hot-dog diplomacy -- a “soft-power” tactic of American international relations -- started when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt planned a picnic lunch for King George VI of Great Britain's official state visit in 1939. King George apparently asked for seconds and washed it all down with beer.
4kkX6 TIL a new lifestyle, Tang Ping, or lying flat, started in China in 2021. It adheres to doing the bare minimum to get by in life.
7rvQL TIL that due to logging and grazing, the percent of the US state of Vermont covered by forest was just 30% in 1870. Today, that figure is around 78%!