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TIL Hitler once told Mussolini "I prefer to have three or four of my own teeth pulled out than to speak to General Franco again!"

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9w7BG TIL the idiom "Keeping up with the Joneses" came from a comic strip of the same name that ran in U.S. newspapers from 1913-1940. It featured the McGinis family, often struggling to keep up socially and materially with their neighbors, the unseen Joneses.
R7vOl TIL - Joerg Buttgereit (director of Nekromantik) created concept and characters for a lost XBox\PS2 game
R7nea TIL One company owns or holds a majority stake in Keurig Green Mountain, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Panera Bread, The Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Caribou Coffee Company, Eistein Bagels, Espresso House, Mighty Leaf Tea, Stumptown Coffee, and Bruegger's Bagels
nepnP TIL In December 1958, fishing rights tensions between Mexico and Guatemala escalated. Seeking to distract from domestic protests, the Guatemalan Air Force strafed a row of Mexican trawlers, killing 3 fishermen. The president defended his brinkmanship, claiming they were pirates plotting an invasion
69P1Y Today I learned that you can’t buy Smarties(the chocolate ones)in the US.