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TIL that Hard Rock Cafe is entirely owned by the native american Seminole Tribe of Florida

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4XOxR TIL that in 1997 when the Methuen Mall closed, Applebee's refused to leave. For two years the mall was completely empty, save for the single Applebee's. The mall was demolished around the Applebee's, leaving the restaurant alone on a 60-acre lot until a lengthy legal battle forced them to leave.
7v8b TIL of the Bald Knobbers, a vigilante group from Missouri who killed and arrested members of the KKK and the Confederacy while wearing hooded horned masks at night
P1rwe TIL that the Vent Haven Museum in Kentucky claims to be the world’s only museum dedicated to ventriloquists’ dolls, with over 1000 on display.
9Yeb6 TIL At the height of their popularity in the 1990's baseball card manufacturers produced an estimated 81 BILLION cards per year. That's about 325 cards per every man, woman, and child in the United States.
9YVBG TIL: Lise Meitner, an Austrian-born physicist, discovered that atomic nuclei can be split in half. She and her nephew explained and named nuclear fission in 1939, but the recognition went to Otto Hahn for this discovery. He was granted a Nobel Prize in 1944 in Chemistry.