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TIL Grapple - the grape flavoured apples are defunct - and I'm heartbroken

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yVB0a TIL that the term boycott is named after the land agent Charles Boycott, against whom the tactic was used by Irish nationalists in opposition to the system of English landlords in Ireland
lXpG TIL Richard Pryor was the first comedian to perform at the original Laugh Factory in 1979. When the owner attempted to pay him, he declined, handed him a $100 bill saying, “"You need this for your rent, boy.”
GAW75 TIL Canberra, Australia's capital city, had a variety of suggested names including Kangaremu
KOpR6 TIL in the Sellafield nuclear power plant there is an industrial freezer packed with an expanding mountain of radioactive seagulls that were shot by snipers employed by the plant
78WxX TIL that Julius Caesar had a comb-over which he was self-conscious about