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TIL For the last 30 years EVERY member of Congress has received monthly copies of Hustler Magazine.

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pYdK8 TIL Kellog's Corn Pops cereal was named Sugar Pops until 1984 and featured the mascot Sugar Pops Pete blasting sugar on the cereal with a pistol.
1a88 TIL A young Swedish boy watched a short animation of a bicycle repairman who builds a racecar, and decided he would build his own. 17 years later he achieved his dream and created Koenigsegg
p8gdO TIL the smallest state forest in New York measures 348 square feet and contains the stump of only a single tree that was cut down in 2015.
d88Md TIL that a bite from the Lone Star Tick can make you allergic to red meat.
v1O58 TIL about Aimo Koivunen, a Finnish ski commando who in 1944 escaped from pursuing Russians by taking 30 pills of Pervitin. He skied for 400 kilometers in -20C temperatures with no food and ammunition, got injured by a landmine, and had a pulse rate of 200 beats per minute by the time he was found.