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TIL Cotton Candy is called Fairy Floss in Australia

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mEYx TIL in 2011, Jell-O monitored the amount of smiley faces and frown faces used on Twitter. Whenever the national average of smiley faces was less than 51%, Jell-O released coupons to those who recently tweeted frown faces.
x66Bo TIL that the British MI5 hired an astrologer after they learned that Hitler supposedly used astrology to influence his actions. However it was later known that the predictions of Hitler's astrologer were extremely inaccurate and Hitler himself thought of astrology as 'complete nonsense'.
MewgA TIL The Internet weighs the same as a strawberry (approx. 50 grams). Because the internet is run by electrons, which has a very miniscule mass.
pYo1Q TIL Jack Black's parents were both Rocket Scientists and worked on the Hubble Space Telescope
jNjgp TIL A Japanese company has awarded its non-smoking employees 6 extra vacation days to compensate for the smoker’s smoke breaks.