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TIL the Chinese New Year parade in San Francisco is the largest celebration outside of asia

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d8nlj TIL the earliest known drinking straw dates back to 3000 BC to a Sumerian Tomb and was made out of gold. The Sumerians made straws to drink beer.
awWWN TIL that the first two toys to use electronic sound chips to make noise rather than an analogue recordings, Simon and the Speak & Spell, both got their hardware from graphic calculator maker Texas Instruments
d8ZwQ TIL that there is a Spiderman comic (The Amazing Spiderman #36) that deals with Spiderman being too late to stop 9/11. Spiderman along with four of his arch rivals help out at the scene of the attack by lifting rubble and rescuing survivors.
kPyB TIL that until 1986 you didn’t even need to buy property in Alaska. You could build a house and it would have been yours…
X00gr TIL In 1948 Ford Motor Company was offered to take over Volkswagen for free. They turned down the offer. Volkswagen is now the second largest car manufacturer in the world.