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TIL In the year 2000, Japanese citizens voted that instant noodles are the best national invention of the 20th century.

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EQxW TIL Nancy Grace has been linked to two separate suicides
nepoW TIL in 1984, the U.S. Army gave Donald Duck an honorable discharge in honor of his military service for appearances in Disney WWII cartoons and WWII mascots embodied in combat units of various U.S. military branches
xVVXD TIL despite repeated warnings by safety inspectors to install smoke alarms and sprinklers, the Haunted Castle at Six Flags Great Adventure had burned down in 1984 killing 8 teenagers.
5V16D TIL that United Fruit Company, now Chiquita, played a major role in the 1954 Guatemalan coup d’tat after the country redistributed 400,000 acres of uncultivated company land.
6QyW TIL there have been no recorded human deaths due to a meteorite fall.