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IKEA is serving food because they realized that customers don’t buy and don’t stay for long when being hungry. Their policy is to be the absolute lowest price on food within a 30-mile radius, even if it means selling at a loss. So, they take a hit on the food, but they make it up in furniture
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37% of public school teachers use personal money to buy food more than once a month for their hungry students. They spend an average of $35/month. With 3.1M teachers in the US, teachers are spending about $400M/year of their personal money to feed hungry students.
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Blackpanthers planned a free breakfast program for children but the Chicago cops broke into the church they were holding it in the night before and Urinated on all the food. Regardless of the delay the program continued and fed tens of thousands of hungry kids over the span of many years.
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Andrew Myrick, a storekeeper on a Minnesota Native American reservation, told starving natives to get grass if they were hungry. He was found dead on the first day of the Dakota War of 1862 with grass stuffed in his mouth.
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A Palestinian judge banned divorce during Ramadan because "people make hasty decisions when they are hungry"
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The Simpsons' co-creator Sam Simon left most of his fortune to animal charities and feeding the hungry when he passed away from cancer in 2015
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In Italy, it is not a crime to steal food if you are hungry and have no other means of nourishment.
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The Indiana State Prison system usually gives condemned inmates their last meal about two days early because "they typically aren't as hungry on the day they are to die"
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In 1910, President Roosevelt supported a bill that would have released hippopotamuses into Louisiana to eat an invasive plant species and to provide delicious hippo bacon to hungry Americans.
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Feeding bread to ducks is actually one of the worst things you can feed them. The ducks no longer feel hungry but also receive no nutrients, causing malnutrition.
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Sandwiches taste better when someone else makes them because when you make your own, you anticipate its taste and become less hungry for it.
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Burger King is called "Hungry Jack's" in Australia, as the name was already trademarked by a takeaway food shop in Adelaide
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A Russian town was once “besieged” by hungry bears with as many as 30 bears being reported circling the small town
Eric Carle, the American-born illustrator and writer of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, moved to Germany as a kid in the 1930s, and was conscripted to dig trenches for the German army when he was 15 years old. Now 87 years old, he is one of the youngest surviving WWII veterans. - source
Burger King was forced to change its whole franchise name to Hungry Jack's in Australia due to a small takeaway joint already trademarking the name in Adelaide. - source
A hungry Jesus cursed a fig tree to wither and die because it was out of season and had no fruit. This is counted as one of Jesus's miracles.
Burger King is called Hungry Jack's in Australia because of a single restaurant in Adelaide called Burger King - source
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Superb Fairy-wrens teach their eggs a 'secret password' that the young can sing when they hatch. Those that sing the password get food, and the brood parasite eggs (which don't learn the password) go hungry!
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Christopher Columbus, in an effort to induce the natives of Jamaica to continue provisioning him and his hungry men, successfully intimidated the natives by correctly predicting a lunar eclipse"
Originally one Michelin star meant "you can safely eat here without getting the runs," two stars meant "if you happen to pass this place do stop and have some food," and three stars simply conveyed "if you're hungry, this one is worth adding twenty miles to your trip and taking a diversion."
As millions of North Koreans go hungry, the country's rulers have taken up the habit of having McDonald’s hamburgers flown in daily from China (on North Korea’s national airline).
In 1986, when a five-year-old boy fell into a gorilla cage, the giant male gorilla named Jambo stood between the unconscious boy and the other hungry pack of apes saving his life. Later he even stroked his hair.
In 1504, Christopher Columbus scared the natives of Jamaica to continue to provision him and his hungry men by successfully predicting a total lunar eclipse. When the moon turned red, showing his God was 'inflamed with wrath", the frightened community quickly agreed to his request.
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