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TIL the BBC now owns the rights to the iconic police box

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QJbvM TIL that apparently The Breakfast Roll is not a thing outside Ireland?!
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ANgLg TIL that in 1933-34, with immense pressure on banks, the city of Detroit printed their own banknotes to allow employees to be paid, as well as utilities.
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