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TIL: GB Glace (Unilever's heart ice cream company) has a different name in many different countries.

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kJGeg [TIL] The concept of zero as a number was first developed in India, and its use spread to the Islamic world and then to Europe.
XEGQX TIL The international Milky Way bar, which is sold as 3 Musketeers in the US; and the US version of the milky way is sold as the Mars bar elsewhere. The US Mars bar was a Milky bar with Almonds an was discontinued in 2002 and replaced with the snickers almond
xVYQo TIL Nazi anthropologists tried to infiltrate US Indian Reservations both to study the languages for decryption but also deter enlistment, assuming that because of past history, they would rather revolt than be drafted. Not only did it not work, it may have backfired increasing the enlistment overall
jNmEv TIL that we can put bacteriophages (viruses that only attack bacteria) into the human body to help kill harmful bacteria. This is called phage therapy.
697bY TIL: Author Roald Dahl helped invent a new brain shunt that saved thousands of children after his own baby son suffered a brain injury.