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TIL Philadelphia cream cheese was created in New York
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TIL Nicolas Cage has already bought his grave. It’s a 9-foot pyramid in New Orleans.
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TIL Til Schweiger refused to wear Nazi uniform for his role Sergent Hugo Stiglitz because he didn't want to do anything with Germany's Nazi past. He wore it only after Quentin Tarantino told him that he would be killing Nazis in the film.
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TIL during WWI a British recruitment tool called the “Pals Battalion” allowed people from the same town to enter the military together. Though it increased enlistment rolls, it also devastated whole regions of the UK whenever a battalion experienced heavy casualties. By WWII the idea was abandoned.
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TIL in 2009 Burger King ran the "Whopper sacrifice" campaign, which gave a free whopper to anyone who deleted 10 friends on Facebook. Facebook suspended the program because Burger King was alerting people letting them know they'd been dropped for a sandwich
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TIL after the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE, an Athenian soldier named Epizelus lost his sight after his comrade next to him was killed despite not having any injuries himself, suggesting he suffered from hysterical blindness due to PTSD.