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TIL that Red Lobster lost ~3.5 million dollars on its Endless Snow Crab deal in 2003

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D1xWr TIL of Lachhiman Gurung, A Nepalese Gurkha who lost his arm in battle but continued to fight with his bolt action rifle, single handedly holding off over 200 Japanese troops and killing 31 until the next morning.
Kbx9 TIL As soon as you create something, it is automatically protected under copyright in Australia. You don’t have to register for copyright protection.
0NVN TIL there is currently a community of people living on top of a mountain in France. They believe that on December 21, aliens will emerge from the mountain to save them from the apocalypse.
666w TIL that in 5 years, Jahangir Khan played 555 consecutive squash matches, maintaining an unbeaten run the entire time. During this winning streak, he won the International Squash Players Association Championship, without losing a single point.
XeME TIL the reason dogs spin around before laying down is a ritualistic behavior passed down from their wild ancestry in which doing so would tamp down the grass to create a bed