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TIL the Hershey Kiss paper is called a Plume. It’s edible.

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5YExR TIL Grenades are named after the French word for Pomegranates, due to their bulbous shape being similar to early grenades.
x6rLo TIL about Duncraig railway station in Scotland. Opened in 1897, it was supposed to close in 1964 as part of rail network restructuring. However, it reopened in 1976, after local train drivers refused to acknowledge the station's closure for the intervening 11 years. The station is still open today
epkeD TIL about Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, an Ugandan religious movement whose leaders claimed the apocalypse would occur on Dec 31, 1999. When that passed without incident, a new date Mar 17 was announced and a gathering held. There was a fire, killing all 530 attendees.
Z8dra TIL that the woman behind the Columbia Pictures image, Jenny Joseph, never modeled before & after that image.
9MPG TIL Shirley Temple was an ambassador to Czechoslovakia & Ghana, survived breast cancer, served on the board of directors of Bank of America and was a candidate for the House of Representatives. REST IN PEACE