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TIL California City is the 3rd biggest city in California by area. Its founder planned a city to rival Los Angeles, but today only 14000 people live there.

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Wk158 TIL Charles Dickens wrote the popular Christmas classic, "A Christmas Carol," in six weeks. Dickens was a passionate advocate of the poor and defenseless who experienced his own hardship, at twelve, when his parents and younger brothers were put in debtors’ jail and he had to work off their debts.
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6EB4m TIL that tomato sauce is not Italian at all but Mexican. The first tomato sauces were already being sold in the markets of Tenochtitlan when Spaniards arrived, and had many of the same ingredients (tomatoes, bell peppers, chilies) that would later define Italian tomato pasta sauces 200 years later.
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