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TIL, Joan Jett’s famous “I love rock and roll” is a cover

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Bd0r TIL that Ronald Reagan used to give acorns he collected from Camp David to the squirrels outside the Oval Office. On his last day in office, mindful of new President Bush’s dog, he left the oval office for the last time, gave the squirrels acorns and set down a note that read “beware of the dog”
8e7oG TIL the government of North Korea owns and operates a chain of over 100 "Pyongyang" restaurants around the world
woZm8 TIL that Minecraft became the first video game ever to reach 300 million copies sold worldwide and this equates to it having sold 47 copies per minute, every minute, since the game's release in 2011.
WkLX8 TIL in 1987, Corona sales plummeted when a rumor spread that their workers were peeing in their beer. The company traced its origins back to Heineken, whom Corona sued for $3 million in damages, but their reputation still suffered and their product was referred to as “Mexican piss water” for years.
XElmX TIL Treatise of the Three Impostors was a supposed book existing in legend since the 13th century that denied Islam, Christianity and Judaism. The Pope accused the Holy Roman Emperor of having this view, though the Emperor denied it.