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TIL: Hidden Valley ranch dressing is manufactured by Clorox.

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yV54p TIL: There are two cities on the USA/Mexico border named Calexico and Mexicali
8a6BK TIL about a localized horror legend, “The Donkey Lady”. The ghost of a woman who’s limbs were burned into hoof like stumps, and face melted into an elongated, donkey-like mask. Widely believed and retold in San Antonio for 50+ years. She even has a namesake bridge.
d9xZ TIL Angelina Jolie purchased 60,000 hectares of Cambodian land that was infiltrated by poachers and turned it into a wildlife reserve. Some of the former poachers were employed as rangers.
YpgaG TIL of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, presented annually to the author who produces the worst description of a sex scene in a novel. The award is "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it".
4oNw TIL in June 1939, just 3 months before Hitler would invade Poland (and England would declare war on Germany), USA had an army that was smaller than the army of Portugal