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TIL that Allspice is not, in fact, all the spices mixed together, but rather a type of sun-dried Central American berry.

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VMNrB TIL that Marvel's Star Lord was at one point not the only comic character to go by Star Lord. In 1978, a short lived British comic series called Starlord was published. Both Star Lords were not affiliated. However, Marvel's Star Lord debuted in 1976, making him the original, and the most popular.
wjp8 TIL that Nokia has been around since 1865.
MwJA TIL That post-911 a large number of songs were banned from many radio stations including ACDC’s TNT, Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York, and all of Rage Against the Machine’s songs
KvmQ TIL that in 1991 Canada’s Prince of Pot Marc Emery was given one year probation for selling copies of 2 Live Crew’s rap CD As Nasty As They Wanna Be which had been deemed obscene and banned in Ontario, CANADA.
xVRo0 TIL that military tanks are called tanks because the secret program they were developed under was disquised as being about moving water tanks.