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TIL that Snapchat lost nearly 40 million on unsold spectacles.

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yQKOp TIL Chris Farley named his Matt Foley character after a friend who for a time lived in a van by a river. Matt is now a Catholic priest in Chicago.
e0x0n TIL Oreo "Double Stuf" do NOT contain double the amount of filling, but merely 1.86 times the amount, though Nabisco refutes this claim.
nWnEb TIL pepperoni is an entirely American invention, first made in New York City in the late 1910s.
MevEa TIL: in 1976 Gerald Ford attempted to eat a wrapped tamal at a presidential campaign stop in San Antonio, which some people believe cost him the state of Texas. It is known as the Great Tamale Incident.
9nwM TIL On April 6. 1893 Andy Bowen and Jack Burke were involved in the longest boxing fight in history. The fight lasted 111 rounds (3 minute rounds each), it took 7 hours and 19 minutes until referee John Duffy called “no contest” after both men were too dazed and tired to come out of their corners.