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TIL The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew series are still selling over one million copies annually

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OYgL TIL that the Trix rabbit has actually eaten the cereal twice: in 1976 and 1980.
KVvB TIL That The Most Interesting Man in the World landed the Dos Equis gig by successfully improvising, with the given line “…and that’s how I arm wrestled Fidel Castro.”
8a09a TIL that Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI attempted to escape from France but were recognized and caught in town of Varennes only 40 miles from the border with the Austrian Netherlands
GADGj TIL that China alone accounts for over 90% of global spinach production
v1ekR TIL in 1956 two young girls who were obsessed with Elvis Presley went missing after going to see "Love Me Tender" for the 15th time. Elvis was so concerned that he issued a public appeal over the radio pleading with them to be “good Presley fans and go home and ease their mother's worries".