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TIL The voice actor who voices Optimus Prime also voices Eeyore from Winnie The Pooh

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n107 TIL that amid widespread chocolate shortage during WW2, Pietro Ferrero sought to create a chocolate treat that would be affordable for struggling families. The result was “supercrema,” a spread made with just a little bit of chocolate and a lot of the hazelnuts. Now we call it Nutella.
MmoB TIL that North Carolina has a tax on the purchase of illegal substances. Users of illegal drugs are supposed to purchase a stamp and place it on the containers of their drugs as proof that they have payed the tax.
m1NWv TIL: People used to believe that the blood of the freshly executed was a health tonic and would pay executioners a little money to let them drink it warm.
p8GdG Tuberculosis has killed some of the most influential people in history. Popular names include Pocahontas, George Orwell, Andrew Jackson, Franz Kafka, Jane Austin, John Smith, Frederic Chopin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
eW7b TIL: The word for stretching and yawning at the same time: pandiculation