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TIL a Massachusetts Panera Bread, which was to be the only sandwich vendor at a mall, tried to prevent a Qdoba Mexican Grill from opening on the grounds that a burrito was a sandwich.

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Bene TIL Robert Moses, the extremely powerful New York City urban planner, hated the idea of poor people lowering the tone at the seaside, so he built low bridges over his parkways to ensure that only cars, not buses, could make the trip.
YpwGr TIL Florentine society during Renaissance tacitly accepted male homosexuality but had a rigid rule: passive/receptive partner must be under 20 years of age while active partner had to be older (20s or early 30s). Reversing those roles was considered shocking and a deviation from the “natural order.”
Lk4A9 TIL that an off-brand Olympic Games competition was held in July 1980, called the Liberty Bell Classic, in Philadelphia. It was for the countries that boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
xww1 TIL in 1997 Pepsi held a contest to win a life-size replica of the Simpsons house or $75,000. The contest winner chose the cash. The house, which cost $120,000 to build, was renovated to look like a normal home and re-sold
OGjpY TIL Commercial tea bags release millions of microplastics and nanoplastics when in use. For the first time, the study demonstrates how these particles can enter the bloodstream and travel throughout the body after being absorbed by human intestinal cells