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TIL: The brand Fruit Of the Loom is older than the light bulb, automobile and the telephone.

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KYM96 TIL an indigenous empire called the Purépechas (Tarascan Empire) denied an alliance request from their rivals, the Aztecs, when Hernan Cortez first arrived in present-day Mexico City.
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