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TIL the last time new soap opera created in American television was Passion in 1999. Soap opera have been declining ever since.

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oB7ME TIL Romans may have invented the burger, called Isicia Omentata, over 1,500 years ago which was made with minced meat, pepper, wine, pine nuts and a rich fish-based sauce called garum. The Romans also introduced the first fast food restaurants, called a thermopolium, that sold hot ready-to-eat food.
XEQPE TIL about A Free Ride, the earliest extant American pornographic movie, from 1915
wyEE TIL that the quartermaster held almost as much power on a pirate vessel as the captain. The quartermaster could veto the captain’s decisions outside of combat and was the officer chiefly in charge of discipline.
nwZ9 TIL a 400 years old bosnai tree survived the nuclear blast of Heroshima in 1945, later the tree was presented to USA as a gift and still flourishing in National Arboretum (Washington, D.C.) and past of the tree remained hidden till 2001.
GYXA4 TIL Opossums are like tick vacuums, eating as many as 4,000 per week