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TIL in 2015, Belgium was blocked by France from issuing a 2 euro commemorative coin for the 200-year anniversary of the battle of Waterloo; so Belgium decided to mint its own, non-regulated 2.5 euro coins instead

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VJGG TIL Two Domino’s Pizza employees in North Carolina were arrested in 2009 after a video surfaced on the Internet that showed one of them putting cheese up his nose while preparing sandwiches, farting on salami slices, and blowing his nose on the food, as the second employee filmed.
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