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TIL than in 2012 Iceland considered adopting the Canadian Dollar as its currency

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wLwxJ TIL NBA player Shaquille O’Neal requested to be (and now is) the spokesperson for The General car insurance because he was a customer while in College and remains a customer to this day
4kvYN Today I learned that Saint Valentine (as the one Valentine's Day is named after) is also considered a patron saint of beekeepers.
X0JWk TIL about Jerry Thomas, considered "the father of American mixology." In 1862, Thomas collected and codified the oral tradition of recipes from the early days of cocktails, including the first written recipes for the Fizz, Flip, Sour, Punch, and Tom Collins.
16ZQV TIL: In 2019, a lawyer and a software developer brute force copyrighted every possible melody and entered them into public domain to insulate musicians from ‘stolen melody’ lawsuits.
vPEx4 TIL that in 1992 the US Postal service held a vote over whether official stamp of Elvis Presley should depict Elvis as a young man or later in life. After over 1.2 million ballots, young Elvis won with 75% of the vote, and would become one of the most popular commemorative stamps of all time.