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TIL that Doritos were scientifically designed to be addictive by hitting every sensation as perfectly as possible

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701p TIL that starting in 2007, the city of New York began paying for a one-way plane ticket for any homeless person as long as they had a relative elsewhere agree to take them in.
vdxB TIL “Oh Yeah! Cartoons” remains TV’s biggest animation development program ever, giving several dozen filmmakers the chance to create nearly 100 seven-minute cartoons. The series eventually yielded three dedicated half-hour spin-offs: The Fairly OddParents, ChalkZone & My Life as a Teenage Robot.
xVdYw TIL that in 1895 a swarm of Rocky Mountain locust, measuring 1,800 miles long and 110 miles wide, blocked out the sun for five days. Thirty years later the locust was extinct.
Z8D1a TIL retailers will often get in defective lower quality models of popular products, known as derivatives, specifically for Black Friday. These inferior models are made with cheaper materials and have different bar codes from the actual product. This makes Black Friday one of the worst times to shop.
9YRMQ TIL The galaxy we live in is totally bent out of shape.