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TIL Benjamin Franklin was the only man to sign the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and the Treaty of Paris of 1776.

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KvOR TIL Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump and The Shawshank Redemption were all in theatres at the same time in October of 1994.
yQb1X TIL that Clara Peller, the actress behind the "Where's the beef?" slogan, had her contract with Wendy's terminated after she appeared in a tomato sauce commercial in which she said "I found it". Wendy's executive Denny Lynch stated, "Clara can find the beef only in one place, and that is Wendy's".
b9On0 TIL of the Watermelon War, a riot in Panama City (1856) which started because a drunken American wouldn't pay 5 cents for a slice of watermelon. It led to the death of 15 Americans and 2 Panamanians.
16ZM4 TIL that a blue moon happens when a full moon appears multiple times in a month and not when the moon becomes blue
gARW TIL that Canada has bestowed honorary citizenship on only five individuals, with Malala Yousafzai soon to be sixth. The others are Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Karim Aga Khan IV (a Shia Imam), and Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who rescued thousands during the Holocaust.