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TIL the Fugio cent, the first official coin placed into US circulation in 1787, displayed writing which said "Mind Your Business" and "We Are One"

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nV1P TIL that the Yankee Doodle lyrics “Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni” refer not to the pasta, but to Macaroni fashion, a British type of pompous over-dressing.
W7OeY TIL it was legal to enslave children in Switzerland until 1981
jNORM TIL the Red, White, & Blue Bomb Pop was created the summer of 1955 as Cold War tensions between the US and Soviet Union were heating up, with nervousness and caution surrounding a possibility of nuclear war building to a fever pitch. Marketed as a Patriotic Popsicle, associated with the 4th of July.
Zr7G TIL about Marcus Garvey, a political leader who died from a stroke after reading an obituary of himself that was mistakenly published in a newspaper
p8GKA TIL British power stations are burning wood from US forests to meet renewables targets