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TIL that the candy bar THREE MUSKETEERS was so named because the package originally contained THREE bars: vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. WW2 sugar restrictions led to consolidation into a single chocolate bar.

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mx9WM TIL in 2007, São Paulo introduced the Clean City Law. The result was a near-total ban of billboards, digital signs, ostentatious business signs, and advertising on buses and taxis. It turns out that some massive billboards where hiding whole favelas that few knew existed.
AN7oB TIL more than 50 percent of people get away with murder.
rRv91 TIL The reason Roman structures survive so long is because they used volcanic ash in their concrete, which slowly transforms to aluminum tobermorite when exposed to sea water. Something modern scientists have been trying to do for decades.
9wVar TIL that the magician Christopher Roller claimed to have godly powers and unsuccessfully tried to patent them and sue David Copperfield for stealing them.
GAeQ TIL the Ramones took their band name from the pseudonym Paul McCartney would use when checking into hotels, Paul Ramon.