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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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rNaW4 TIL Jerry Lawler of WWE fame began a feud with comedian Andy Kaufman, wrestling him and slapping him on TV while Kaufman shouted profanities and threw coffee in his face. Later, as himself in Man on the Moon, he stated that his feud with Kaufman was staged and the two had actually been very close.
oY7K TIL the King of Saudi Arabia has been holding four of his daughters hostage for nearly 13 years. They have been deprived of food and water and are being physically and psychologically tortured.
NXZwN TIL about Oppianicus, a Roman man who killed or ordered killed several of his relatives for power. He also killed his youngest sons because his fifth wife didn't want to be a stepmom. He tried to kill his stepson, who then prosecuted against him, resulting in Oppianicus's exile.
e0Own TIL that one time, when Oliver Cromwell was asked what form of government he would replace the monarchy with, dodged the question by starting a pillow-fight
MeOPA TIL in 2009, speakers of Swabian German, a very distinct southern German dialect, voted Muggeseggele (=“scrotum of a housefly”) as the “Most beautiful Swabian word”, well ahead of any other terms. It is used to describe very small units of measure.