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TIL In 1949 Oregon state senator Dean Walker tried to ban popcorn from movie theaters.

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R7O7Q TIL The moon was created in a huge planetary collision 4.5 billion years ago. It was initially 22,000 km away, and an Earth day was 5 hours long. Due to tidal action, the moon has gradually moved away to 400,000 km, and slowed the Earth's spin to a 24 hour day.
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XEloP TIL that New York City has a sanitation police unit. The agency "primarily responsible for regulating, enforcing and investigating sanitation-related offenses within the City of New York."