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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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n6or TIL high heels were originally worn by men as a signal of status. Women started wearing heels as a way of trying to appropriate masculine power. Being rational (practical footwear), everyone quit wearing heels altogether. It emerged again for women during mid 19th century from pornography.
Brx6D TIL that anybody, dead or alive, travelling into France requires a passport. In 1974, The Egyptian government had to issue a passport to Pharaoh, Ramesses II to transport his body to France for restoration. Eerily, his body also received full military honours when it arrived at the Paris airport.
Z8X8G TIL about Scheele’s Green, a popular pigment in the 1800s made with deadly arsenic. One famous death was of a flowermaker, who dusted the pigment onto fake foliage. “She vomited green waters; the whites of her eyes had turned green, and she told her doctor that ‘everything she looked at was green.’”
p8byQ TIL it is common for truck drivers in India to elaborately decorate their trucks with colorful ornaments, kaleidoscopic images, iconography and bangles/jewels to create a psychedelic looking "Home away from Home" in honor of their culture and their families. It's also excellent advertisement!
QNNd6 TIL that The kereru (New Zealand Wood Pigeon) is well-known for getting drunk off fermented fruit and falling out of trees. Consequently, it has earned the reputation for being "clumsy, drunk, gluttonous, and glamorous."