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TIL : In Victorian UK drunks would literally hang over a rope to sleep for 2-cents/pence

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Xy5E TIL That before the 1500s, there were no potatoes, corn, tomatoes, and tobacco in Europe nor oranges, bananas, mangoes, and coffee in America
4XvKg Today I learned that Burger King (not the chain) in Mattoon, IL can be the only food restaurant that can be named that in that town and cannot use the name outside the town. Also Burger King (the chain) has the rights to the name everywhere else except in Mattoon, IL
ADAww TIL of Wilmer McLean, who’s house in Manassas, Virginia was in the 1st battle of Bull Run. He moved to Appomattox, Virginia, but 4 years later Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant in his living room. His properties had one of the first, and last encounters of the Civil War.
mnvM TIL that a .45 caliber handgun was stolen from President William Howard Taft and was then used in several murders.
rNded TIL in the mid-60s, Canadian composer Galt MacDermot, who was then a 38 year old father of four, was offered to compose the music for the hippie-rock musical “Hair”. Galt admitted that he had no clue what a hippie even was, but was “enthusiastic to do a rock-and-roll show.”