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TIL an Oregon man trapped in the snow for 5 days survived by eating Taco Bell hot sauce packets

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DKYD TIL the only reason people in the US spell aluminium as aluminum is because Charles Martin Hall, the developer of the metal’s refinement process, misspelled it on one of his advertisements.
JRGk TIL that when Super Famicom (SNES) first launched in Japan, Nintendo had to ship the consoles in the middle of the night so the Yakuza didn’t hijack them
wGgM TIL the chains that you can see hanging under school buses and trucks are there to provide traction in snow. With the flip of a switch, the chains will lower automatically and the centrifugal force sends the chains into action. [Video]
JYZA8 TIL that the northernmost battle of the American Civil War happened in St. Albans, Vermont. 21 Confederates arrived via Canada and checked into local hotels over the course of a week, before staging three bank robberies, stealing $3.4 million dollars (inflation-adjusted) and fleeing back to Canada
e0O7n TIL about Henri Frenay, a Frenchman who initially supported the Nazis, but changed his mind immediately after the Nazi occupation of France, after seeing "the look of contempt on the faces of the Germans when viewing the French". He then joined the Resistance movement.