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TIL the Dragon Quest series (1986) is older than the Final Fantasy series (1987)

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Z8rP4 TIL that chocolate was classified as “candy” under the Revenue Acts of 1918 and 1921, and so it was taxed as such. Hershey’s sued to recover about $8,000,000 in taxes by arguing it was “food”, and so had been wrongly taxed. The Supreme Court ruled it was “candy”.
V6m8 TIL that when a French artist is killed during war, the government has a “died for France” designation which extends their post-mortem copyrights by 30 years
omwW TIL that in 2010 there was a ballot initiative in Washington to make the state seal include a tapeworm dressed in a three piece suit attached to the lower intestine of a taxpayer.
l7RNK TIL a band released blank album cover captioned “We had an album cover we wanted to use, but after getting dropped by our label we can no longer afford to use it. So instead you can stare at this blank square.”
p8gQA TIL - The oldest wheel was discovered in Slovenia and is over 5,000 years old