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TIL Hawaiian Punch started off as an ice cream topping

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VM4wD TIL multiple contestants on separate Gordon Ramsay shows ended up committing suicide some time after their individual Ramsay show aired.
GYXbN TIL the likely record for fastest manmade object is a manhole cover launched by a nuclear bomb. A high-speed camera recording the lid only caught one frame of it moving meaning it was traveling over 125,000 miles per hour
XEvwk [TIL] Ernest Shackleton, captain of Endurance, became trapped in pack ice and the ship was crushed on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914–1917. The crew escaped by camping on the sea ice for 2 years until it disintegrated, then launched the lifeboats to reach Elephant Island, 720 m away.
jD4Q TIL that in 1987 a 16 year old girl went missing on a camping trip to search for Bigfoot in the Sierra Nevada. She was never seen again. The 43 year old man with her claimed she was taken by bigfoot, and avoided trial due to the lack of a body.
VMb60 TIL that nearly 70% of all Americans have less than $1000 in savings and 45% have no savings in all