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56bp TIL the Snickers bar was named after a favourite horse of the Mars family.
9Xy6 TIL The Idaho Potato is actually from Massachusetts. Cultivated by Luther Burbank in 1872, he sold the potato for $150 and moved to California where the city of “Burbank” eventually got its name.
0Py TIL Napoleon offered a prize to anyone who could feed his troops effectively, and thus canned foods were born