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Jun 14, 2020

TIL: Street food in Vietnam is so available, fast and cheap that international fast food chains like McDonald’s flopped after entering

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Jun 07, 2020

TIL the maître d’ of the Waldorf Hotel in NYC for 50 years, Oscar Tschirky invented the velvet rope and the Waldorf salad

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May 08, 2020

TIL The Queen has been the face of so many currencies and has reigned for so long that it is possible to observe her aging process on Commonwealth banknotes.

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May 04, 2020

TIL that Reno/Tahoe was the divorce capital of North America in the early 1900s because of its very lax divorce laws and only requiring 24 weeks of residence to file for divorce.

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Mar 06, 2020

TIL that in 1996, as a loss-leading tactic, British supermarkets competed so heavily on the price of baked beans that one store decided to sell them for MINUS 2p. This period is referred to by economists as The Bean Wars.

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Jan 31, 2020

TIL that "Zyzzyx Road," a 2006 thriller starring Tom Sizemore and Katherine Heigl, was released in just one theater for a week. During its short run, a total of six people saw the film, which resulted in $30 in ticket sales, making it the lowest-grossing movie of all time.

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Dec 21, 2019

TIL the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy collects about $4000 worth of coins every day. Most of the money goes towards charities like a supermarket for the needy.

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Nov 28, 2019

TIL Norway is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. It has a 'sovereign fund' of $1 trillion, around $200,000 for each of it's 5 million citizens to support future generations.

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Nov 27, 2019

TIL restaurants during the German hyperinflation of the 1920s, a waiter would stand up on a table every 30 minutes to call out the new prices.

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Oct 13, 2019

TIL a woman in France accidentally received a phone bill of €11,721,000,000,000,000 (million billion). This was 5000x the GDP of France at the time. It took several days of wrangling before the phone company finally admitted it was a mistake and she owed just €117.21. They let her off.

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Oct 08, 2019

TIL A psychology study of more than 4,000 millionaires found that people with more wealth are indeed happier with life. They also found that people who earned their wealth were happier than those who inherited it.

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Jun 12, 2019

TIL that a pound of US quarters and a pound of dimes both equal twenty dollars.

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