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TIL: March 30th is National Doctor's Day in the USA

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16OL4 TIL in early 2000 when Eminem submitted The Marshall Mathers LP to label boss Jimmy Iovine, he was unsatisfied & said that it didn't have a hit single. In direct response to this, Em created the album's second single "The Way I Am" with the track's piano rhythm even coming to him on the plane home.
w9j7 TIL that in 1996, Taco Bell announced they bought the Liberty bell in an April Fools prank, resulting in panicked reactions across the U.S., including from some senators, and caused the National Parks Service to call a press conference to deny the claim.
yQlra TIL Morocco was the first nation, in 1777, to officially recognize the United States of America by opening its ports to American ships. In 1786 the nation signed a treaty of 'peace and friendship', a document that marks one of the longest diplomatic relationships US history.
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BWJk TIL six years after the fall of Communism in Poland, consumption of alcohol grew to five times the average levels of Western countries, and one liquor store for every 300 people serviced the demand.