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TIL my hometown of Sandusky, Ohio, has made Election Day a holiday, swappint out Columbus Day. (via NPR)

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6EvQJ TIL that ketchup was origionally not made with tomatoes and that there are still mutiple kinds of ketchup, including walnut, mushroom, mango, and banana ketchup still sold today.
5Yaap TIL Stanley Kubrick had a fear of flying, so 'Eyes Wide Shut' was shot entirely in England. Workmen were sent to NY to measure street widths and note newspaper vending machine locations.
0dQdA TIL about the Empire of Atlantium—a micronation founded in 1981 when teenager George Cruickshank and friends painted a 10 sq-meter patch in his Sydney backyard, declaring independence. Now it has a 0.75 sq-km territory, 3,000 "citizens" from 100 countries, and you can stay at its capital via Airbnb.
8aP5P TIL that in 2009, British PM Gordon Brown hand-wrote a letter of condolence to a mother whose son had died in Afghanistan, in which he misspelled the son's surname. The Sun (a tabloid) wrote a scathing article criticizing his mistake. In this article, the paper misspelled the same name.
6Yyw TIL that IGN gave the movie “This is Spinal Tap” an 11.