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TIL Hershey’s Kisses got its name from the machine that makes them, which makes kissing sounds and appears to “kiss” the conveyor belt onto which the chocolate is dispensed.

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jNd0Q TIL that with over 13 sextillion made as of 2018, the Metal-Oxide-Silicon Transistor is the most widely manufactured device of all time.
gvO4 TIL when Weird Al showed Mark Mothersbaugh his style parody “Dare to be Stupid,” Mothersbaugh said he hated Al for it because Al had perfected the sound that Devo had always tried to achieve.
grBAL TIL that researchers long thought US President William Harrison died from an illness he caught giving a lengthy inaugural speech in the rain. But recent research suggests he caught typhoid fever due to the White House’s water supply being downstream of public sewage.
WRkX TIL a man survived in a sunken ship for nearly three days, 270 feet underwater, in pitch darkness, while listening to fish eat the corpses of his shipmates.