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TIL that Trader Joe's claimed to have invented the 'puff dog', a hot dog in puff pastry, not realising that the UK and other Commonwealth countries have had virtually the same thing for decades.

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yV8mJ TIL about Rat Kings, a collection of rats that have their tails intertwined, and they can not be separated. A similar thing has been observed with squirrels.
7rE1b TIL John Ratzenberger is the only actor to voice a character in every Pixar film
yJ8V TIL Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart live in the same building and ride to work together.
ZOjB TIL that Bill Watterson, the creator of “Calvin and Hobbes” came off a 20 year hiatus from drawing comics to illustrate 3 comics for “Pearls Before Swine.” The originals went on to sell for $74,090 for Parkinson’s disease.
NXGk8 TIL that Neil Degrasse Tyson recorded the WTC attacks on 9/11. He caught the second plane strike, and both collapses.