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TIL Ronald Regan used the slogan "Lets make America great again" in his 1980 presidential campaign.

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mx4pE TIL Nearly 3% of Antarctic ice in glaciers is penguin urine
awOBM TIL that in 2013, a soap opera was filmed in IKEA without the store knowing about it. For a year, the cast and crew filmed scenes at different parts of IKEA. The result was a seven-episode soap opera series called IKEA Heights.
rNlZo TIL the Avianca airplane crash of 1990 was caused in part due to the pilots not declaring a fuel emergency to the aircraft controllers. They never actually use the word "emergency," so they flew around in holding patterns and eventually ran out of fuel
v15j7 TIL Lula oil field in Brazil is considered to be the western hemisphere's largest oil discovery of the last 30 years.
1kMr TIL Mile marker 420 was removed by officials in Colorado and replaced with a 419.99 sign because the 420 was stolen so often.