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TIL Pop-Tarts are one of the most purchased items before a major storm.

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DyEJ TIL the highest-grossing Chinese film of all time is a romantic comedy about a playboy businessman who falls in love with a mermaid who was sent to assassinate him.
kOoyd TIL Hiroaki Aoki moved to NYC from Japan where he would work 7 days a week in an ice cream truck he rented in Harlem. Using the $10,000 he saved from the business, he convinced his father to invest in a four-table teppanyaki restaurant which would be named "Benihana" after the red Safflower.
Me80 TIL in 1778, Thomas Jefferson authored a bill that would change the penalty for rape or sodomy from death, to castration.
Lkm0P TIL that during the filming of 'Where Eagles Dare' actor Richard Burton was drinking up to four bottles of vodka a day, and ending up knocking himself out at one point while drunk. as well as disappearing for several days during one of his drinking binges
KYQJ TIL Einstein proposed in an inch long equation: “Gravity” doesn’t pull, instead space pushes. “Gravity” is only the apparent effect of the bends in space. G = 8 π T