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TIL that Doritos were originally created by Disneyland to make use of left over tortillas

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8eGOV TIL Patricia Highsmith (author of The Talented Mr. Ripley, Carol, Strangers on a Train) once attended a party with 100 pet snails in her handbag, calling them her "companions for the evening"
xWVB TIL that An avenue is traditionally a straight road which emphasize arrival at a landscape or architectural feature and A boulevard is usually a widened, multi-lane arterial street with a median and landscaping between the curbs and sidewalks on either side.
R54Nj TIL in 1967 a man named Thomas Jolley fled the US to Canada and renounced his citizenship to avoid being drafted in the Vietnam War. A few months later he returned to the US and was ordered deported, but Canada refused to accept him back. He spent the rest of his life in the US as an illegal alien.
wnx7 TIL that in the town of Zillah, Washington, there is a small church, very appropriately named “The Church of God-Zillah”
0dPAv TIL that with a population of 170 million people, Bangladesh is the most populous country to have never won a medal at the Olympic Games.