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TIL the original Baby Ruth candy company claimed the bar wasn’t named after Babe Ruth so they could avoid paying him royalties. They later shut down a rival candy bar that was actually approved by Ruth to use his name on the grounds the names were too similar.

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nVDb TIL The Communist Party is the second largest political party in the Russian Federation
5jd8 TIL in 1980, former Vice President Spiro Agnew published a memoir in which he implied that Nixon and his Chief of Staff, Alexander Haig, had planned to assassinate him if he refused to resign the Vice Presidency, and that Haig told him to “go quietly…or else,” the memoir’s title.
pkeQ TIL that the word CURFEW comes from “cover fire” and dates back to the Middle Ages, when people were required to cover their fires by a certain time of night.
Qrv6 TIL that Cuba has two types of currency - one for Cubans to buy basics and the other for tourists to buy what are considered luxuries
Pr8G TIL for a Make A Wish request, Journey visited a boy suffering from cystic fibrosis. They let him be the first person outside of the band hear the song, Only the Young. The next day the boy died.