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TIL in 1978 McDonald's gave away free razor blades with their breakfast

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4XDyg TIL as early as 839 AD, Swedes & Scandanavians served as mercenaries in the Byzantine army. Swedish men left to enlist in such numbers that a new law "Västgötalagen" was created that said no one could inherit while staying in Greece to stop emigration.
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R5gRa TIL: The first written use of the name "Jessica" appears in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. The bard likely changed (anglicised) the spelling from the biblical name "Iscah"
XEOMk TIL At the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, while giving interview after interview, Martin Scorsese ran out of cocaine and found it impossible to continue. "No more coke, no more interviews," he declared.