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TIL Colorado has its own unique style of pizza (nowhere near as well known as Chicago or Detroit style).

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nerM7 TIL While Leon Trotsky was returning to Russia after the Communist Revolution he was arrested and detained in Nova Scotia for a month. His revolutionary speeches were so popular that when he was banned from speaking, 500 prisoners signed a petition. The whole cell block cheered when he was released.
ZjDQ TIL that Alex Trebek and Pat Sajak swapped places on Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune as an April Fool’s joke in 1997
PYp8Z TIL Philip Seymour Hoffman did not want his children to be "trust fund babies" so he did not create a trust. This resulted in a $12 million estate tax bill that he could have avoided if he made a trust fund.
R7PD8 TIL in 1740, a mother, annoyed that her son would play immature pranks on people wrote “All his talents lie in things only natural in boys of fifteen years old, and he is about two and fifty; to get people into his garden and wet them, and put things in their beds to make them itch”
ea1g TIL Norway can live off investments from its oilfund for “decades, centuries, possibly forever”