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TIL a popular dish in Scotland is a frozen pizza folded in half, dipped in batter and deep fried. It is usually served with salt and vinegar.

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w0k7 TIL When Ronald Reagan watched Back to the Future for the first time, he loved the joke about who was president in 1985 (Ronald Reagan? The Actor?) so much that he made the theater projectionist stop the film, roll it back, and play the joke again.
dDww9 TIL before 9/11, New York's deadliest disaster was an excursion steamboat sinking in 1904 with 1,021 deaths and 431 survivors (most could not swim at the time).
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vPaED TIL, Rovaniemi's buildings 90% destroyed during WWII. When the city was rebuilt, the new city plan was designed by Alvar Aalto architect, who planned the city's footprint in the shape of a reindeer's head, with the city roads forming the antlers, and the local sports stadium as the reindeer's eye.
b9nPQ TIL the rent in the most desired area Tokyo is 1/6 the average rent of San Francisco. Even though Tokyo is much more densely populated.