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TIL Doritos were invented at Disneyland

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WkM6B TIL of Dr. Donald Hopkins. He helped eradicate Smallpox, and is on the verge of killing another disease. He's taken Guinea Worm Disease down from 3.5 million cases a year to just 28 cases last year.
xVeaD TIL The more scars a Jalapeno has the Hotter the Jalapeno will be. Also applies to other peppers.
69ANl TIL a graffiti artist in Philadelphia once tagged his name on an actual elephant at the zoo
xVYG0 TIL about the Great Green Wall, an effort to plant trees to stop desertification in the Sahara that began in 2007. Ethiopia has planted over 5.5 billion seedling since.
9obp TIL the sanitary napkin was invented in 1919 because Kimberly-Clark needed a post-war product that used the material they developed for WWI bandages. Kotex stands for “cotton textile.”