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TIL that The Hershey company (chocolates) and The Hershey Creamery Company (ice-crea) are not related, though both were founded in Lancaster County, PA in 1894 by men whose surnames were Hershey and who were not related to each other. The two companies have had bitter trademark disputes for decades.

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