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TIL Pennsylvania Leads the World in Junk Food Production

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1aMnX TIL Keith Moon died in the same apartment as Mama Cass approx. four years after her. They were both 32 when they passed.
4k80J TIL Irish rugby player Trevor Brennan received a lifetime ban (5 years on appeal) for attacking a fan in the stands after they accused him of watering-down pints in his pub.
loaoB TIL Monty Python's famous gag in Holy Grail of using coconuts for horse clops was NOT out of budget necessity, but was in fact the first idea they had which served as a starting point for the film.
aw5V9 TIL that in 1923, a man petitioned to change his surname from Kabotchnik to Cabot. Several members of the Cabot family, one of the oldest and wealthiest families in Boston society, sued to stop him, but the judge ruled against them because there was “nothing in the law to prevent it.”
4vQ5 TIL in the early nineteenth century, the United States had a hundred and forty-four separate time zones