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TIL Chef Boy-Ar-Dee is spelled that way so that Americans could correctly pronounce “Boiardi.”

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69raJ TIL Staines a town in England changed their name to Staines-upon-Thames due to the associaton with Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy character Ali G
9Y0GX TIL of the Trans Europe Foot Race where in the 2012 event competitors raced from Italy to Norway. German Peter Partel won with a time of 14 days and 18 hours to complete the 4175 km (2594 mile) course, averaging 283 km (176 miles) per day
R79Yl TIL: National Pizza Month observance began in October 1984, and was created by Gerry Durnell, the publisher of Pizza Today magazine.
ram4 TIL El Duce, member of shock-rock band the Mentors, passed a polygraph test after telling sources Courtney Love offered him money to kill Kurt Cobain. Later, he claimed to know who committed the murder; he was found dead two days later. (More links inside)
9wg6 TIL - That the US still uses a mining law from 1872 that allows companies to extract mineral from government-owned land for 5 dollars an acre with no royalties