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Wikimedia DYK

... that Franz Liszt's female admirers would fight over his cigar stubs and coffee dregs as souvenirs?
... that Justly Watson died suddenly in 1757 from the effects of poison administered in his coffee, it was believed, by a servant?
... that actor Tatsunari Kimura ate pancakes and drank coffee while talking for eight hours during the filming of the television drama Old-Fashioned Cupcake?
... that in a copyright infringement case over a coffee-table history of the Grateful Dead, the Second Circuit held that a reuser can still claim fair use despite negotiating with the rights holder?
... that Kenyan coffee farmer "Pinkie" Jackson amassed Africa's largest collection of native butterflies?
... that a Vancouver TV station was intended to stop the "$1,500 cup of coffee"?
... that the Highfield Cocoa and Coffee House in Sheffield, England, sold tea, coffee and cocoa at a penny a pint and also provided billiards and reading rooms?
... that Steem peanut butter contained as much caffeine per serving as two cups of coffee?
... that the Claudia Quintet was born out of an incident at alt.coffee?
... that the city council of Bandung in the Dutch East Indies initially met at the site of a former coffee-packing factory?

Food & drink DYK

... that the Indianapolis Community Food Access Coalition was created to resolve food deserts in the city of Indianapolis?
... that Rosalind Creasy wrote a landmark book on edible landscaping?
... that Adele reduced the length of "I Drink Wine" from fifteen to six minutes because her label thought that no one would play a fifteen-minute song on the radio?
... that Gleaners Food Bank has served more than 700 million pounds (320 million kg) of food in Indiana?
... that a two-year-old food bank contributed 150 semi-trucks of supplies to relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina?
... that John Bunker was inspired to propagate old apple tree varieties after encountering Black Oxford apples while managing the food co-op in Belfast, Maine?
... that the reactions to food depicted in the manga series Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma were decided on through free association games?
... that the New York Savings Bank Building later became "The Grand Palais of Rugs" and the "Temple of Food"?
... that before Angeli Foods was sold this year, the first self-service grocery store in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan had been owned by three generations of a single family?
... that Fred G. Sullivan's film The Beer-Drinker's Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking depicts Sullivan being humiliated with mud and whips for the failings of his previous film?
... that Raymond Bushland and Edward F. Knipling won the 1992 World Food Prize for developing the sterile insect technique which eliminated parasitic screw-worms from the United States?
... that the Japanese TV show Iron Chef gained a cult following on a San Francisco TV station before it was dubbed into English and aired on the Food Network?
... that agronomist Simon Groot was awarded the 2019 World Food Prize for "benefiting hundreds of millions of consumers with greater access to nutritious vegetables"?
... that Foodbank Canterbury receives products from a prison?
... that Squatina mapama was named after Spain's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment?
... that a viral video by an Indian influencer resulted in the sugar content of Bournvita being cut by almost 15 percent?
... that before becoming the first woman president of the American College of Sports Medicine, Barbara L. Drinkwater had an undefeated season as a women's college basketball coach?
... that in November 2022, Leicester City Council used the Food Act 1984 in combination with a royal charter of 1199 to levy a charge on the organisers of two Christmas light switching-on events?

Restaurant DYK

... that an Iowa TV station operates from a former McDonald's restaurant?
... that Cathy Whims has opened several restaurants in Portland, Oregon, including the Nostrana, which has been described as "Portland's capital of the Negroni"?
... that the restaurant CosMc's is named after a character from McDonaldland?
... that according to its founders, Pink Peacock is the only "queer Yiddish anarchist vegan pay-what-you-can cafe" in the world?
... that Malinau Kota, Indonesia, with 31 percent of the population of Malinau Regency, is home to more than 70 percent of its registered restaurants?
... that after Mary Gardiner Horsford died, her husband married her sister Phoebe?
... that a New York pop-up restaurant opened by Louisa Shafia served stews and rice dishes described in a review as a "Persian-tapas gateway into the ancient cuisine"?
... that Colonel Sanders created a competing restaurant to KFC, and was sued by KFC?
... that Kuappi in Iisalmi, Finland, holds the Guinness world record for the smallest restaurant?
... that in 1990, Simon Rimmer bought an existing vegetarian restaurant with his business partner and taught himself to cook – in that order?
... that when Seattle sandwich restaurant Paseo abruptly closed, fans left flowers and lit candles?
... that a restaurant in a Thai hotel serves "Chicken Volcano", a dish containing whiskey?
... that after the original Stonewall Inn closed in 1969, its space was used by a bagel shop, a Chinese restaurant, and a clothing store?
... that there are only 4 locations left of Boloco, which once had 22 burrito restaurants throughout the northeastern United States?
... that the Hainanese chicken rice at the Singaporean restaurant Chatterbox was developed by a German chef?
... that Dublin restaurant Deli 613 imports frozen bagels from New York?
... that Tropicana was reportedly the first building in Singapore to contain nightclubs, restaurants, and a theatre?
... that almost 45 percent of Taiwan's beer purchases come from rechao restaurants?
... that thirty white employees quit working at Jumbo's restaurant in Miami after it desegregated?
... that Tala Bashmi played on the Bahrain women's national football team for seven years before opening a restaurant in a Manama hotel?
... that guests to the Delmonico's restaurant at 56 Beaver Street touched a pair of columns at the entrance for good luck?
... that Mayling Oey-Gardiner went from being a University of Indonesia clerk to a full professor?
... that One Chun, a Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand restaurant, has black-and-white televisions, transistor radios, and aged clocks on a wall?
... that the 1866 barque Thoon Kramom has a replica serving as a floating restaurant?
... that food critic Grace Dent reviewed a Liverpool restaurant that served her rice pudding flavoured with a substance that is banned in the United States for its lethality?

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