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TIL Hot Pockets blamed a lack of sales in 2013 to a lack of extended food stamp benefits

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9YLGM TIL 3 men were shipwrecked in the south Pacific; buoyed by life vests, they swam to the deserted island Fanadik. After 3 days on the island, a US Navy plane spotted a fire the men made and then saw the men waving life vests next to palm fronds that spelled H-E-L-P.
e08wJ TIL For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. "They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests," reported a fifteenth-century tale
v19VK TIL Many common dog behaviors derive from the wolf predatory sequence(search, stalk, chase, grab, kill, dissect, eat). For example, ripping apart a stuffed animal is dissecting, a herding dogs desire to herd is a fragment of the stalk phase & hounds excel in the search phase
b9WAa TIL Only 13 of the 77 restaurants featured on Kitchen Nightmares are still open for business
NXbXQ TIL: When falling in the standard belly-to-Earth position, an average estimate of terminal velocity for skydivers is 120 mph (200 km/h), and a falling person will reach terminal velocity after about 12 seconds, falling some 450 m (1,500 ft) in that time.