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TIL Guinness Brewery in Dublin is under a 9000 year lease.
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TIL 15th century Europe experienced the Great Bullion Famine in which several nations were unable to mint their own currency. The causes include the black death and the bullion outflow from trade with the East. The famine was resolved through accessing new metal sources in the New World and Africa.
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TIL A&W tried to sell a 1/3 Pounder to compete with McDonald's 1/4 Pounder but, despite rating better in flavor during blind testing and being priced the same as its rival, the 1/3 Pounder flopped because Americans consistently believed 1/4 was more than 1/3.
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TIL That a man named Sir Nicholas Winton organised the rescue and passage to Britain of about 669 mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children destined for the Nazi death camps before World War II. Him at a ceremony surrounded by those he saved.[VIDEO]
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TIL that in 2008 a Canadian boy named Brandon Crisp ran away from home after his parents took away his Xbox 360. He was found dead soon thereafter.
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TIL: The teacher character in the interstitial tracks of "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" is played by Ras Baraka, current Mayor of Newark NJ and son of writer Amiri Baraka.