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TIL the person who invented American cheese was born in Canada

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pVnZ TIL the copyright for the song “Happy Birthday to You” expires in the EU on December 31st, 2016
O06X TIL that if the Native Americans really did sell Manhattan to the European for $16 in the 1600s and had invested that $16 at annual interest rates of 8%, today that $16 would be worth enough for them to buy back all of Manhattan and still have $222 Trillion dollars left over.
xm7o TIL the standard diameter of a CD is 12cm because it must hold all of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.
PYvJJ TIL that in 1670, against a judge's instructions, a jury refused to find two men guilty. The judge held the jury in contempt; locked them up overnight without food, water or heat; and fined them. On appeal, the Chief Justice ruled that a jury could not be punished for returning the wrong verdict.
e0dV6 TIL, that Coke was the first soft drink to be consumed in Space when astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger tested the “Coca-Cola Space Can” on July 12, 1985. The Coca-Cola Company also installed the 'Space Dispenser' on the Space Shuttle Discovery, which was first Space soft drink equipment