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TIL A bill was introduced in Maine to outlaw tomatoes in clam chowder

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9wNMr TIL President Harding literally saved the U. S. Constitution which was deteriorating improperly stored at the State Dept. He had it preserved in a glass case.
vP5EL TIL that in 1972 Scottish professional football club Dundee United played a series of friendly games in Nigeria in which they only managed to win one of them. The club's performances shocked the locals so much that "Dundee United" or just "Dundee" is now used as slang to mean "idiot" in Nigeria
D1LZv TIL a majority of Icelanders believe in the existence of elves
MvEb TIL Frank Sinatra never learned to read sheet music his whole career
b6Xm0 TIL that the pulp hero Zorro is not Central/South American as many assume, but actually a white European Spaniard. The 1998 film "The Mask of Zorro" saw the original Zorro, played by Anthony Hopkins, pass the torch to a new Mexican successor. They cast Antonio Banderas, a white European Spaniard.