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TIL that Ferrero owns Nutella and Nutella is actually inside of Ferrero Rocher chocolates!

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BryEk TIL that the actor inside R2-D2 hated the actor inside C-3P0, calling him ‘the rudest person I’ve ever met’.
4XXkw TIL that Thad Roberts, an intern at NASA, stole roughly $21 million worth of moon rocks from NASA with the aid of his girlfriend. He loaded a 600 pound safe containing ~101 grams of samples and wheeled it out of the complex, destroying 30 years of the chief scientist’s research in the process.
VBBbQ TIL one of the first uses of biological agents for murder was in Calcutta, 1933, when Benoyendra Pandey secretly injected Plague into his brother on a train station over a property dispute. He had a previously failed attempt using Tetanus laced spectacles
VBQEQ TIL that the first major German plot to overthrow Hitler, involving multiple generals and a Secretary of State, was cancelled last minute in 1938 when the Allies allowed the invasion of Czechoslovakia
e0va4 TIL hummingbirds, due to their size, are preyed upon by a number of unusual animals, including spiders and praying mantis.