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TIL Most terrorists use the same wrist watch.

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EgxKo TIL about the "Patty Wars". When Jamaican Beef Patty vendors were discovered in Toronto in 1985, the government attempted to ban them from using "Beef Patty" in the name. This led to an huge uproar, and it was eventually settled with an agreement to identify the food simply as a "Jamaican Patty."
Kavw TIL That a friendly exchange between an American and Chinese player in the 1971 World Ping-Pong Championship prompted Mao Zedong to invite the American table-tennis to China, helping re-open Sino-American relations for the first time since the cold war.
5Y8br TIL when Led Zeppelin briefly visited India in 1972, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page were largely ignored because the locals thought that they were hippies until they played at a local venue.
0ddZM TIL about Jesus García, a 23-year-old railroad brakeman, who died during a train explosion saving the town of Nacozari, Mexico.
AD0Yo TIL that duels were so popular amongst military officials in the 1800s that the United States were running out of qualified officers and causing the War Department to put a ban on dueling.