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TIL Japan has over 3000 businesses that have been operating for over 200 years

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mL7P TIL that the medieval French Chapelle de Bethléem has been restored with grotesques referencing popular culture, including Gremlins and Alien.
Z8QBv TIL about Mariano Martinez. A man who in 1971 modified an ice cream machine to create the first frozen margarita machine. He did this to meet demand for a popular margarita recipe he was serving at the time. You can find his invention on display at the Smithsonian Museum for American history.
E1Krp TIL Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were both born on February 12, 1809.
4XXlR TIL on January 12, 2017, the Federal Government officially changed the nickname of people from the state of Indiana from "Indianans" to "Hoosiers", making Indiana the first state not to have a version of their state name in their nickname ("Illinoisans", "Texans", etc.)
BRny TIL That in 1980 Saddam Hussein received the key to Detroit.