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TIL Häagen-Dazs is not a European company, it was invented by two brothers in New York and the name itself is completely made up

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xVkJo TIL that the american flag "code" prohibits using the flag "for any advertising purpose" and also states that the flag "should not be embroidered, printed, or otherwise impressed on such articles as cushions, handkerchiefs, napkins, boxes, or anything intended to be discarded after temporary use".
JXGm TIL the African Union intends to have a single, continent-wide currency modeled on the Euro. One proposed name for the currency is the “Afro.”
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