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TIL Philadelphia Cream Cheese was invented in New York and has never been produced in Philadelphia. It's name is was a 1880s marketing strategy because at the time Philadelphia was known for high quality dairy.

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9YQD7 TIL that in the 2000 Paralympics, 10 out of 12 players in Spain's ID Basketball team were non-disabled, who pretended to have intellectual disabilities. The scandal was exposed after the Paralympics, when one of the players was revealed to be an investigative journalist.
awWG0 TIL: Viruses can live up to 18 days on steel, but only one on denim cloth. University of Iowa research
5YPZD TIL There is a Canadian corporation that actually has its own private armed police force operating in the USA, with full authority to arrest US citizens.
dQBZ TIL the Top Gun producers originally slated Toto to perform “Danger Zone”, but they couldn’t due to legal conflicts. Bryan Adams refused because he felt the movie glorified war. REO Speedwagon wouldn’t unless they could write other songs for the soundtrack. Finally they settled on Kenny Loggins.
eovg TIL of Equatorial Guinea’s 1975 Christmas Eve massacre, in which roughly 150 political dissenters were executed in a stadium by soldiers wearing Santa Claus costumes to the tune of Mary Hopkin’s “Those Were the Days.”