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TIL That Hippos eat meat, and are not purely herbivores!

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nexvB TIL the Kit Kat chocolate bar can trace its origins to a worker at the chocolate bar factory who put a note in the suggestion box saying the company should invent a chocolate bar that “a man could take to work in his pack up”.
KY6lB TIL that when Leslie Nielsen died in 2010, ESPN ran an obituary for "Enrico Pallazzo," the opera singer that Lt. Frank Drebin (Nielsen) impersonated in the first Naked Gun! movie.
OGx5L TIL about Lemuria, a hypothesised continent existing between India and Madagascar due to Lemurs being found in India and Madagascar but not Africa.
6E9o7 TIL of the Green children of Woolpit, a boy and a girl with green skin who appeared in the town of Woolpit, England in the 12th century. They spoke in an unknown language and only ate raw beans.
XxMr TIL an Australian TV presenter wore the same suit on his show for an entire year to bring attention to the different standards his female counterparts are held to. Nobody noticed the whole time.