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TIL Monopoly was created “to demonstrate the evils of land ownership.”

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KBxQ TIL Irish-American Billionaire Chuck Feeney has given away $7.5billion (£4.9billion) to health, science, education and civil rights causes. He is now worth $2 million dollars.
xDOo TIL that Pepsi created a contest where people could win a car if they picked the right key for it from their provided options. However, when a man was able to open it, he was sued by Pepsi, since the contest was supposed to be impossible to win because the right key for the car wasn’t available.
rRl9x TIL : A Chinese mining company and the Afghan government is going to destroy Mes Anyak, a 5,000 year-old Bronze age site and 2,000 year-old Buddhist Silk Road city.
KY0lJ TIL Salesmen at a insurance Company were rewarded with an Orgy
KxR4 TIL Disney removed the Tarzan character from their parks because women kept pinching the butts of the loincloth-wearing actors who played him.