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TIL in Russia, flavored instant-mashed-potatoes in a cup are a popular snack, similar to instant ramen cup noodles in Japan and North America.

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yQnZM TIL You could fit all the planets in our solar system between the Earth and the Moon.
kyaW TIL that Marvel’s first movie, Howard The Duck, bombed at the box office. It cost an estimated $37 million, and grossed under $38 million internationally, netting under $1 million.
V7L0 TIL that Charles Nelson Reilly, actor/comedian best known as the long time panelist on the game show Match Game, was a survivor of the 1944 Hartford circus tent fire in which 169 people died. He never sat in an audience again for the remainder of life because large crowds reminded him of the event.
e1BD TIL the FBI seized a server that was being used to host child pornography and ran it for two more weeks. Defendants caught in the sting argued the FBI did a better job hosting a child porn site than whoever originally ran it: The site’s average weekly visitors jumped from 11,000 to 50,000
NXZK8 TIL Richard Nixon has the biggest Presidential Landslide victory ever. He got 49 out of 50 states with 18 million more votes than his opponent.