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TIL the Australian Tim Tam chocolate biscuit, inspired by Britain’s Penguin biscuit and created by food technologist Ian Norris, was named after “Tim Tam” , the horse that won the 1958 Kentucky Derby when Ross Arnott attended the race and first appeared on supermarket shelves in 1964

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