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TIL Last year, a Chinese company sold over 110 million counterfeit condoms to Ghana.

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R7ve8 TIL: 1000000000000066600000000000001 is known as Belphegor's prime; a palindromic prime number (a number which reads the same both backwards and forwards and is only divisible by itself and one). The name refers to one of the Seven Princes of Hell.
v1XrD Til that “Big Ben” is actually called Elizabeth’s tower, and the bell inside is called Big Ben
WMPX TIL Patrick Stewart left his bags unpacked for the first six weeks of filming Star Trek: TNG because he thought the show would fail.
XNQQ TIL Nicolas Cage lost over $100 Million of his net worth after purchasing 15 homes, including two castles, a private island, four yachts, and a 67 million year old dinosaur skull.
Zwpp TIL a man born premature with cerebral palsy, was unable to swallow on his own until the age of 1, is blind, was unable to speak or walk until the age of 16, began playing Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No.1 on piano in the middle of the night at age 16. He now can play any song after hearing it only once.