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TIL Strawberry Pop-Tarts are one of the most purchased food items at Walmart during hurricane preparation.

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WZML TIL that Tenochtitlan was possibly the highest populated city in the world before its fall, with 5 miles of aqueducts, a ten mile levee, and one of the most complicated class systems in the world at the time. Cortés of Spain leveled the entire city in 75 days.
5NQD TIL that the terms “hooker” and “sideburns” were popularized and invented respectively during the Civil War. General Joseph Hooker’s army was known to party and hire prostitutes, while General Ambrose Burnside’s facial hair spoke for itself
WkloY TIL about RUSA FM. The only officially syndicated Russian radio station in the United States. It broadcasts in Greater New York, Greater Philadelphia and Greater Miami, and plays Russian music hosted by Russian DJs
E1y1V TIL that Animal Planet made a video, showing what would it looked like, if people mated like angler fish.
YVVx TIL Nixon’s family was poor. They couldn’t afford lavish vacations. And there weren’t that many national parks. So he corrected that by creating the EPA.