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TIL Fritos are made of only three ingredients: corn, corn oil, and salt.

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OMn1 TIL that Mao launched the ‘Hundred Flowers Movement’ in order to receive constructive criticism on how to change China and the CCP. Shortly after, he changed course and launched a campaing persecuting those who criticised him.
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