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TIL that Marjorie Post heiress to the Post Cereal Company purchased the patents from Clarence Birdseye and created Birds Eye Frozen Foods. Post also developed a means to deliver the frozen foods Nationally via Train and also invented the see through freezers at Grocery Stores for visibility.

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7PZL TIL Kung Fu expert in China beat up mob of 50 people trying to evict him.
nWJob TIL that long before the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns around the world, Mexico had a 5 day nationwide lockdown in 2009 (with nearly identical rules to those seen during the Covid lockdowns) for the H1N1 swine flu pandemic.
M7kVm TIL that a Swedish woman found her missing wedding ring, lost in 1995, wrapped around a carrot which she picked from her garden in 2012.
r7Re TIL of “Montreal’s Night of Terror”, a sort of real-life Purge with bank robberies and looting, as the Montreal police went on a 16 hour strike.
E16e7 TIL According to Stanford psychologists, the the advice “find your passion” could have negative affect on people because it implies that the number of interests a person has is limited. That causes people to narrow their focus and neglect other areas.