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

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5Y5RP TIL Charlie Brown repeats the line “I got a rock” in the 1966 special “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown”. This caused an overwhelming viewer response leading to bags and boxes of candy being sent to creator Charles Schulz “just for Charlie Brown.”
8aoEL TIL: Northwest Angle, MN was created when map maker, John Mitchell miscalculated the source of the Mississippi being the Lake of The Woods.
yQd8v TIL about "Bald–Hairy" a Russian political joke based on the observation that the nation's presidents consistently alternate hair types (ie Lenin was bald, Stalin had hair, Khruschev was bald, Brezhnev had hair.)
b6oNQ TIL Hoarding Disorder was not recognized as a disorder until the DSM 5 came out in 2013. Many believe the show Hoarders which came out in 2006 influenced considerable scientific research leading to it's official inclusion in the DSM.
5VvG9 TIL about the Kazakh Famine (1930–1933), which killed around 1.5 million people. Between 38–42% of ethnic Kazakhs died, and as a result, Kazakhs did not become the majority in their own country again until the 1990s.