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National Twinkie Day | Internet Outage

Posted on April 6, 2021 by dmartignetti

National Twinkie Day is April 6. On that day in 1930 Twinkies were invented in Schiller Park, Illinois by bakery manager James Dewar. Plus, The Internet went down last night!

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