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TIL That the word dinosaur wasn't created until 1842
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TIL Hot Pockets were originally called Chunk Stuffers
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TIL according to the singer Meat Loaf (born Marvin Lee Aday), when he was born his father thought looked like “nine-and-a-half pounds of ground chuck” and nicknamed him "Meat". Years later, when he was a heavyset teenage football player, the players and coaches expanded the name to "Meat Loaf".
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TIL that the United States' first department store was created in Utah, and lasted around 130 years before being sold to the Macy's Corporation
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TIL that we have the science to eradicate mosquitoes exclusively saving 100's of thousands of people from death by virus' transmitted by them but haven't done it yet because it could mess up the eco systems food chain if they all died
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TIL: When seceding from the US during the Civil War, Mississippi specifically noted slavery, not “states’ rights” as the primary reason.