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TIL Hot Pockets were originally called Chunk Stuffers

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6EOWQ TIL that locusts are mutated grasshoppers. When an abundance of food is followed by a drought they are forced to group, causing the insect to mutate in a matter of hours from green to brown, solitary to swarming, and become long distance flyers. Up until 1920 they were considered 2 different species
nerNG TIL SR-71 pilot Bill Weaver survived plunging from more than 78k feet after his plane malfunctioned and fell apart around him at more than 3 times the speed of sound. The force of the disintegration was so massive he was ripped from his ejection seat. Two weeks later he was back flying the Blackbird
e0DYb TIL that in June 1995 CIA took an aerial photo in Bosnia. It showed thousands of men and boys held captive near Srebrenica in Bosnia. Few days later they took a photo of the same area, but this time it showed mass graves.
lo7J5 TIL It Used To Be Illegal In Japan To Eat Meat
VMOQB TIL: The South Korean boy band "BTS" is responsible for 0.4% of South Korea's entire GDP. Making the band as valuable to South Korea's economy as multinational giants like Samsung and Hyundai.