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TIL KitKat filling is made from broken KitKats

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M7Rjb TIL that the average time between recessions has grown from about 2 years in the late 1800s to 5 years in the early 20th century to 8 years over the last half-century.
dXpE TIL that Gilbert Lewis, the man responsible for lewis dot structures was nominated for the Nobel Prize 35 times, the most nominations in history, and he didn’t win a single time.
b94Z9 TIL: In 1666, the plague-infested village of Eyam quarantined itself inside a marked circle for 14 months. Neighboring communities left food at the edge of the circle in exchange for disinfected coins. 80% of the people died, but no one crossed the circle.
4XRxo TIL in 2011 at a rural Western NY high school, 14 students came down with an illness: verbal outbursts, tics, seizures, and speech problems. Fears about the cause of the outbreak drew national media attention. One girl had Tourette syndrome. The rest had mass psychogenic illness: mass hysteria.
RAMQ TIL that a picture of a severed Japanese head on a tank turret published by Life magazine on February 1, 1943, generated less protest letters than an image of a mistreated cat in the same issue.