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TIL of Stubbs, an honorary Mayor of a town in Alaska

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78ZMp TIL about the Macchina of Santa Rosa, a 30m/98ft high machine built to honour Saint Rose of Viterbo. Every year 100 men called "Facchini di Santa Rosa" hoist the machine, weighing about 5k kg/11k lb, and carry it through the streets of Viterbo, in Italy. The machine is rebuilt anew every five years
GlJG TIL In 1943 a Pan Am Airline chef snuck whiskey into passengers’ coffee to warm them up on a winter flight. When asked what kind of coffee they were being served, he improvised “Irish Coffee,” creating the now-famous cocktail.
en9D TIL that the sum of all of the numbers on a roulette wheel is 666
pYdK8 TIL Kellog's Corn Pops cereal was named Sugar Pops until 1984 and featured the mascot Sugar Pops Pete blasting sugar on the cereal with a pistol.
PYgRG TIL professional wrestling heels were hugely influential in the development of The Beastie Boys. "The idea of being bad-guy rappers, saying really outlandish things in interviews, that all came from a love of pro wrestling," said Rick Rubin.