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TIL the Grilled Cheese sandwich was originally an open-faced sandwich called the "Cheese Dream" which became popular in the U.S. during the Great Depression

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5Yewp TIL of Punch and Judy, a popular puppet show from the 1600s. In the show, Punch usually ends up killing his baby, his wife, a policeman, the devil and a variety of other characters by beating them with his ‘slapstick’. The phrase “pleased as punch” comes from Punch’s gleeful self-satisfaction.
xKr0 TIL that New York city will give homeless people a free one-way ticket to almost anywhere
R7vAQ TIL the man on the cover of Matchbox 20's "Yourself or Someone Like You" sued the band for unapproved image usage 9 years after the album's release. The delay was because the man was never told the purpose of posing for the photo, and wasn't aware of the album during its original 12m+ sales run
BgEOb TIL Queen Victoria's half-brother served as revolutionary Germany's head of government in 1848
LQd4d TIL a survey found that 56% of commercial pilots admitted to sleeping while flying and 29% had woken up to find the other pilot asleep as well