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TIL - The city of Memphis consumed more mashed potatoes of a certain company than any other American city, so 300,000 local addresses were sent free sample pouches in 2021. Also included was a donation of about 250,000 servings to the local food bank.

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R5kQw TIL about the story of Ada Blackjack, an Inuit woman from Alaska who was stranded on an uninhabited Wrangel Island for two years in the early 1920s, and was the only survivor of her group after being rescued.
9LdQ TIL Canada’s elite special forces unit JTF2 once earned a US presidential unit citation whilst serving with Task Force K-Bar. Vice admiral Robert Harward, a US Navy SEAL in charge of the task force also stated that the JTF2 team under his command was his first choice for any direct action.
Qr8L TIL that there is an area in the middle of the Pacific Ocean where no longer needed spacecraft are and have been routinely deposited. It is known as the “Spacecraft cemetery”, and notably it is also the place where the defunct Mir space station rests.
kbE5 TIL there was a toilet paper shortage in the USA in 1973 caused by a joke on a talk show that convinced people to hoard toilet paper
nkPr TIL “huh?” is a universal word and is found in roughly the same form and function in spoken languages across the globe.