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TIL that Hard Rock Cafe has been owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida since 2007

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QNKPE TIL that the official Canadian keyboard layout (CSA) has a snow mode. The key is equivalent to Control key in other layouts.
0wlgp TIL TGI Fridays exists because the founder was single and wanted to create a place to meet women
n7XW TIL Isaac Newton was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1689 and served for exactly one year. During that time, he said one and only one sentence during the lengthy proceedings: he asked a nearby usher to close an open, drafty window.
wLx7W TIL that officer Ronald Speirs, just after being assigned commander of the E Company in January 1945 during the battle of Foy, ran through the German-occupied town and lines, linked up with the I Company soldiers on the other part of town and then proceeded to run back through without a scratch.
xVy95 TIL that John Harvey Kellogg, the creator of Kellogg's cereal, thought that foods high in flavour caused sexual activity in children so he created flavourless, grain-based cereals to discourage them.