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TIL that in Ireland there is a Guinness quality team that ensures pubs are serving quality pints of Guinness

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Y7Zyd TIL In Finland, cab drivers are required by law to pay royalty fees for songs played on their taxi radio while working & conveying paying passengers. The reason being, cabbies use music for commerce while making a profit. A fixed sum is to be paid to the Finnish Composers' Copyright Society annually
BAWe TIL The wife of L. Ron Hubbard consulted doctors who recommended he “be committed to a private sanatorium for psychiatric observation and treatment of a mental ailment known as paranoid schizophrenia.” Thereafter, Hubbard criticised psychiatry as a “barbaric and corrupt profession”.
QJeKk TIL that the coin at the coin-toss of an NFL game didn't flip. After the coin was tossed, it landed on the same face without flipping at all. They had to redo the toss.
V9Lk TIL that in 2011, Adam Sandler won the Golden Raspberry Award for BOTH worst male and female actor for his role in Jack and Jill
XEKbD TIL that Admiral Sir William James, born in 1881, was, as a young child, the model for a famous painting titled "Bubbles" which was subsequently used to advertise Pears Soap. This fame dogged him throughout his life and he was regularly nicknamed "Bubbles", much to his chagrin.