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TIL Costco sells approximately 100 million hot dogs a year in their food court – over four times the number sold in all Major League Baseball stadiums combined.

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JQBQ TIL In the days immediately before the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US military air-dropped millions of leaflets into 33 different Japanese cities, warning that some or all of these cities would be bombed within the next few days, and instructed them to evacuate immediately.
R79R1 TIL of Seki Takakazu, a mathematician described as "Japan's Newton", who independently discovered many results attributed to his European contemporaries, some of which were rediscovered only centuries later.
b6v49 TIL the writer of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and The Faculty also created Dawson’s Creek
Wk8D4 TIL Humans have physiological adaptations related to the climate of their genetic origins. A study on Chilean Alacaluf Indians shows that they have a resting metabolic rate 150 to 200% higher than whites. South African Bantus have a lower sweat rate than that of acclimated whites.
gM5ED TIL Hugh Jackman officially holds the world record for playing a live action Marvel hero the longest.