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TIL there have been over 200 flavors of Kit-Kat in Japan

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mxEov TIL Gravity moves at the Speed of Light and is not Instantaneous. If the Sun were to disappear, we would continue our elliptical orbit for an additional 8 minutes and 20 seconds, the same time it would take us to stop seeing the light (according to General Relativity).
nmVP TIL during Delta Force hostage rescue training, the operators sometimes use live ammunition and the “hostages” are other Delta team members, in order to build trust and confidence among the team.
J1lyv TIL that the terms “left” and “right” in politics stem from the seating arrangements during the French Nat’l Assembly. Delegates were split on how much power King Louis XVI should have—enraged, anti-royalist revolutionaries sat to the left of the presiding officer.
Z8njD TIL A California man hunts for 100 year old Levi jeans in abandoned mines, in order to sell them to collectors for $30,000 - $100,000 a pair.
loXyG TIL flags are flown at half-mast because the invisible flag of death is flying at the top.