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TIL The guy who invented Nutella also invented Kinder Surprise, Ferrero Rocher and Tic Tacs. What a genius.

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VM990 TIL that in May 2006, the tailfin of an F-14 Tomcat washed up on a beach in Ireland. It was discovered to have come from an aircraft that had crashed 4,900 miles away during a training flight in the Gulf of Mexico 3 1/2 years earlier.
b9wDa TIL the expression “sweating like a pig” makes absolutely zero sense. Pigs are physically incapable of sweating.
DvDg TIL some elite Vikings carried “Ulfberht” swords. The steel used to make Ulfberht swords, was superior to European blackmithing for 800yrs.
baW4 TIL the US government can force you to accept immunity from prosecution
P1OAL TIL Rob Reiner, Richard Dreyfus, and Albert Brooks all went to high school together