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TIL that peanut butter sandwiches were once reserved for the finest tearooms in NYC as peanut butter was a rarity, and thus a delicacy; it was initially paired with a diverse set of foods such as pimento, nasturtium, cheese, celery, watercress, and on toasted crackers.

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ADbrn TIL Tennessee's "Crack tax" required drug dealers to anonymously pay taxes on their illegal sales and earned the state more than $6 million (mostly in seized property), before benig declared "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable, and therefore invalid under the constitution of [the] state."
0OQL TIL Tom Hanks was asked how he wanted Michael Conner Humphreys (Young Forrest) to speak so that there was continuity from young Forrest to grown up Forrest. Instead, Tom decided to imitate Humphreys’ thick Mississippi accent, and thus the iconic Gump accent was born.
x6Oj1 TIL about the big sun dial in Cranmer Park in Denver, Colorado, which actually keeps time. The current sundial is the second one as the original donated in 1941 was destroyed by vandals with dynamite in 1965. A replcament was installed in 1966 after a citywide fundraising effort.
oQYA TIL Dogs can sense Earth’s magnetic field, and will attempt to align themselves facing north when they poop in an unfamiliar place. This is why they often spin before they defecate.
e0Deb TIL of 'Death Discs' - or 'Splatter Platters'- a type of Pop music to emerge in the late '50s-mid '60s. Sung by teen artists, themes centred on tragic deaths and suicide. The sub-genre was seen as the first musical expression of teen - especially teen female - angst.