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TIL Hot Cheetos were invented by a Mexican immigrant working as a janitor in a Frito-Lay plant, who is now an executive. After a machine broke, he took some plain Cheetos home, and created his own recipe inspired by street elotes. The president let him pitch it even though he barely spoke English.

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p7eG TIL The fastest man made object in history might just be a manhole cover over a nuclear test bunker. Last seen going 41 miles per second, the steel plate was never found.
N78Yb TIL that there is a town in Canada named Dildo.
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