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TIL Thursday is National Cuban Sandwich Day, a “holiday” invented by a newspaper reporter in Florida to prove a point about how easy it is to invent dumb food holidays. Despite that, Cuban Sandwich Day continues to appear on calendars and is celebrated annually by restaurants around the world.

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