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TIL that Bob Drane, founder of Lunchables, won’t even feed them to his own kids.

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neVo7 TIL A survey of ~80,000 words estimated the origin of English words to be 28.3% French, 28.24% Latin, 25% Germanic, 5.32% Greek, 4.04% No etymology given, 3.28% Proper names, all other languages < 1%.
R7YN7 TIL Students from UNIS University spend their first days learning how to use a rifle to defend themselves against bears
0w8N5 TIL National Geographic hires an archivist who has worked by himself in the magazine office basement for over 30 years. He has handled hundreds of thousands of photographs and is responsible for about eight million images in the vintage collection
woyMW TIL: Apple had a zero click exploit that was undetected for 4 years and largely not reported in any mainstream media source
ner7Y TIL of "Futility", a novella about the Titan - the largest ship of its time. It's dubbed an "unsinkable" ship, and doesn't have enough lifeboats. It hits an iceberg in mid-April in the Atlantic and sinks, killing most of its passengers. The book was written 14 years before Titanic's maiden voyage.