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TIL Hot Pockets were originally called Chunk Stuffers
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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.
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TIL after the Korean War, 333 South Korean prisoners of war detained in North Korea chose to stay in the country.
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TIL Kenneth Copeland, a Christian Minister who believes in Prosperity Theology, is worth $750 million
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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.
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TIL: The Panic of 1873 was known as the "Great Depression" until the events of 1929 and the early 1930s set a new standard.