Post * R5dE7 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Kit Kat bars are made up of imperfect rejected Kit Kats bars that are mashed up into a paste that's used to fill the wafers.

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691Z TIL that movie theaters have been banned in Saudi Arabia since the 1980s.

MPgW TIL that a woman believed “crunch berries” in Cap'n crunch were actual fruit for years, and attempted to sue Pepsico when she found out they weren’t. The judge dismissed it as “common sense” knowledge.

0d5E1 TIL that a cloud weighs about one million tons — it floats because air is even lighter.

xVwEo TIL that Steve Jobs had just been pruning apple trees in Oregon which led him to call his company Apple. “It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge off the word computer, ” Jobs said. “Plus, it would get us ahead of Atari in the phone book.”

9YK7m TIL the red-whiskered bulbul is native to tropical parts of Asia, but the bird has also established itself on other continents including many Pacific islands. In Florida they feed on fruits and berries of as many as 24 exotic fruit plants including loquat aiding in its dispersal and propagation.