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TIL Cotton Candy is called Fairy Floss in Australia

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JYZxV TIL that not only did Robert Todd Lincoln watch his father die, but he also saw the assassinations of Garfield and McKinley. When Roosevelt took office, Lincoln wrote “I do not congratulate you, for I have seen too much of the seamy side of the Presidential Robe to think it an enviable garment".
kKm7 TIL a McDonalds in downtown Dallas, overrun by criminal activity, started playing classical music. Crime dropped dramatically, from an average of 391 arrests a year to less than 146 arrests a year.
a8nlL TIL that during "the Emergency", a political crisis in India which saw civil liberties being curtailed, the newspaper Indian Express protested against ongoing press censorship by publishing a fully blank front page editorial.
PPOg TIL that in India there is a Guardian Angels-style vigilante group that protects young couples who fall in love across different castes.
Gv6j TIL all the “meat” on a Subway cold-cut combo is actually turkey-based.