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TIL a quasar group called LQG is the largest known structure in the Universe. The group is so large that it would take a vehicle traveling at the speed of light some 4 billion years to cross it

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a8AbA TIL Doritos were invented at Disneyland. In the 1960s, the restaurant Casa de Fritos at Disney used up their surplus tortillas by frying and coating them with a seasoning powder. The appetizer was such a big hit that Frito-Lay, an early sponsor of Disneyland, released the snack nationwide.
788Ox TIL that an FBI informant secretly wore a wire to breakfast with a city official suspected of bribery, and met the suspect at the WTC Marriott. In the middle of getting a confession, the informant ends up making what is believed to be the only uninterrupted audio recording of the Sept. 11 attack.
lom9A TIL Link Wray’s “Rumble” is the only instrumental to be banned from American radio
D7aV TIL that Rick Moranis was fired from the set of The Breakfast Club after he kept playing the janitor as a goofy Russian character
p8aK4 TIL that Richard Nixon got drunk and ordered a nuclear strike on North Korea before sobering and cancelling it