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TIL Hot Pockets were originally called Chunk Stuffers

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8ODV TIL that at the Battle of Verdun a group of French soldiers, boxed in by German forces and without communications, was saved by a messenger dog. The dog, named Satan, managed to bring the soldiers two carrier pigeons, allowing them to send the Germans’ position to French artillery.
1a69P TIL after the Korean War, 333 South Korean prisoners of war detained in North Korea chose to stay in the country.
ANXxg TIL Kenneth Copeland, a Christian Minister who believes in Prosperity Theology, is worth $750 million
4k8Eg TIL of the "Dawson Film Find". 1900s Dawson was a remote gold rush town with a cinema. Film's sent there were never returned, accumulated, buried, covered by a hockey rink and forgotten. Years later diggers unearthed the 533 reels of lost films, and rare footage, including the 1919 World Series.
8abWa TIL: The Panic of 1873 was known as the "Great Depression" until the events of 1929 and the early 1930s set a new standard.