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78D97 TIL While the details of the invention of French Fries is disputed, their name originates during WWI. Belgian soldiers, who would speak French, often offered fries to American soldiers, who then referred to them as “French.”
b67L9 TIL that the song Smooth by Santana-Rob Thomas is both the last #1 hit of the 90s and the first of the 2000s
oBR0o TIL a defendant in the UK called a judge a "bit of a cunt" and the judge replied with "you're a bit of a cunt yourself"
WGeB TIL London has a ‘Cereal Cafe’ where you can eat hundreds of different kinds of cereals from around the world
ADYpw TIL 20th Century Fox made so much off of Return of the Jedi that they were looking for a tax write-off, so they paid for the entirety of a film with little faith behind it: Revenge of the Nerds.