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TIL: There is a bar in Canada named after Zaphod Beeblebrox. And it serves Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters!

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69QDY TIL in 1895 a judge awarded nothing beyond burial costs to the parents of a two year old killed by the Southern Railway Company of Georgia, due to the child being too young to have any "earning capacity" of it's own.
la1r TIL about J.R.R. Tolkien’s service as a Lieutenant in World War I. He fought in The Battle of the Somme, and it has been suggested that the horrors of trench warfare shaped his later depictions of Mordor in The Lord of the Rings.
xVPE7 TIL: "He never married" was a commonly used by obituary writers in the United Kingdom as a euphemism for the deceased having being homosexual
nWaw7 TIL: In 1919, more than a decade before Nazi Germany adopted their policy against Jewish citizens, Britain introduced the 'Kipande System' in Kenya which required all native Kenyans wear a small red book around their neck as identification which contained their fingerprints and work qualifications.
xVEDb TIL That The George Washington memorial statue in London is built on American soil, as Washington once said that he would “never stand on English soil ever again”.