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TIL that the Liberty Bell and Big Ben were made by the same company.

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VMMDk Is the fish's deadly rep justified?
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NYJN TIL in 2007 hundreds of people gathered at the coordinate from xkcd episode 240 - story of a man who met a girl in dream that ended with him saying ‘wanting something doesn’t make it real’. When the time was up author Randall Munroe appeared and said “Maybe wanting something does make it real.”
XEKlj TIL: The term "yakuza" comes from the numbers 8, 9, and 3, which are the worst cards you can have in Oicho-Kabu, a Japanese card game similar to Baccarat.
5VQok TIL Mayonnaise is named after (and was likely invented in) Mahón, Spain