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TIL about the "Patty Wars". When Jamaican Beef Patty vendors were discovered in Toronto in 1985, the government attempted to ban them from using "Beef Patty" in the name. This led to an huge uproar, and it was eventually settled with an agreement to identify the food simply as a "Jamaican Patty."

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8a0BK TIL that one of the rarest coins is the 1933 Double Eagle gold coin. 433,000 minted but subsequently melted down. Officially 2 were kept but a small handful aside from that we’re smuggled out of the mint before they were melted down. One of those coins sold in 2002 for $7,590,020.
8e6VL TIL of Japanese Olympic athlete Shizo Kanakuri (金栗 四三), who held the world record for the longest marathon run of 54 years, 8 months, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3.seconds after collapsing during the race, returning home, and finishing it decades later in his 70s.
GGg4 TIL that after the frontman of Norwegian metal band committed suicide, his bandmate made necklaces out of pieces of his skull and gave them out to musicians he deemed worthy. He also took a picture of the scene, and it was later used as the cover of their next album.
oB1ML TIL: The English Moors used to be a Temperate Rainforest, now a barren and desolate "wet desert" due to deforestation & fires caused by humans thousands of years ago
N7DDb TIL that yesterday and the British attack in 1814 were not the only times the US Capitol has been attacked. In 1954 a group of Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on the House of Representatives from the second floor visitors gallery