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TIL "Second Breakfast" is not just a LOTR meme, and is in fact tradition in many countries

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nWjMW TIL that Hakone-en Aquarium in Kanagawa, southwest of Tokyo, tried to swap out the fish it feeds its penguins for a cheaper alternative, but the penguins essentially went on a hunger strike and refused to eat the bargain bin fish.
xAl5 TIL that General Motors and other companies would buy street cars and trains and scrap them to decrease public transportation competition
M7GdV TIL there's a national Earth Wind & Fire Day celebrated on September 21st of every year.
pYAP8 TIL the first Scram button on a nuclear reactor had its origins in 1942 where an actual control rod tied to a rope with a man with an axe stood next to it; cutting the rope would mean the rods would fall by gravity into the reactor core, shutting the reactor down.
m1X6v TIL a pregnant belly can explode.