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TIL That Mountain Dew Baja Blast is chemically formulated to taste good with Taco Bell food

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oRnNA TIL An officially licensed Homey D Clown video game was released for PC in 1993. Computer Gaming World ranked it as "the 5th-worst computer game ever released."
oBxkA TIL that Charles Curtis, the 31st vice-president of the United States, was of Native American ancestry and was enrolled as a member of the Kaw-Nation. English was his third language after Kansa and French
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