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TIL the Dutch traded the island of Manhattan to the British for Run Island, near Indonesia, for its supply of nutmeg.

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KODg9 TIL the main reason rent prices are skyrocketing in US cities is due to 1950s single-family home zoning laws and Baby Boomer homeowners who obstruct affordable housing from being built for reasons like "wrong aesthetic" or "blocking the sun" because they don't want their property values to go down
dDYGB TIL Denny's was originally Danny's Donuts in Lakewood, CA. Three years and eight locations later, they became Danny's Coffee Shops. Three years after that, the name was changed to Denny's in order to avoid confusing them with another restaurant called Coffee Dan's.
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