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TIL The Chocolate Hills on Bohol Island, Philippines, are covered in green grass that turns brown during the dry season, transforming the area into seemingly endless rows of Hershey's "chocolate kisses". There are 1,247 hills, of which two have been developed into tourist resorts

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