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TIL Costco sells more than 100 million hot dogs a year. In 2015 it sold four times as many as are sold in all the major league baseball stadiums combined.

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LkA6P TIL that the 2000 hit "Who Let The Dogs Out" by the Baha Men was a cover of a '98 song "Doggies" by Anslem Douglas, which was informed by a '94 techno hit by Twenty Fingers, which was taken from a '92 hit by Miami Boom, which likely was inspired by a '86 TX highschool football chant
d85gZ TIL the novelization of the original "Star Wars" film was called "Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker" and was published before the movie was released. The novel included the first reference to Emperor Palpatine (who wasn't mentioned in the film), and various other discrepancies.
0kMA TIL The U.S is ranked 5th in the list of Spanish speaking countries by population and is ahead of countries like Peru, Venezuela and Chile.
Eggkd TIL Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left a family photo behind on the moon in 1972
x68w5 TIL Mozart's middle name is not Amadeus. It's a latinized version of his real middle name Theophilus and probably facetious.