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TIL New Mexico is bigger in area than Italy

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jvYp TIL that Sam Panopoulos, the man who invented Hawaiian pizza and started 1,000 internet arguments, died today at 82
jNbda TIL Danny Elfman of Oingo Boingo fame, who also composed the themes for many Hollywood hits like Back To School, Beetlejuice, Batman, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Men in Black, & Edward Scissorhands, was rejected from his elementary school orchestra "for having no propensity for music."
w8D6 TIL that Converse Chuck Taylors have fuzz on the soles so that they can be classified as slippers, which are subject to much lower U.S. import tariffs than sneakers.
xVoRB TIL that you will never see a bin being emptied in Disneyland because of a series of hidden tunnels
xV1ew TIL that the car that Paul Walker died in, the Porsche Carrera GT, was designed to be notoriously difficult to drive to appeal to professional drivers who wanted a challenge