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TIL these 12 companies own over 550 consumer brands. Absolutely Wild...

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5YoJ8 TIL yogurt was invented in 5000 BC and the combination of yogurt and honey was called "the food of the gods".
vDAD TIL when Biagio complained about the naked figures in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo in response, painted him as the judge of the underworld covering is naked body with a snake and donkey ears.
pVab TIL the first movie made about the sinking of the Titanic was released only 29 days after the event. The lead actress was an actual survivor, and suffered a mental breakdown after filming.
XrX8 TIL 14th century Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym wrote poems all about the Penis, going to church purely to ogle the local women and being chased away by the husbands of women he was having affairs with.
VMDMB TIL a BBC analysis of 19 chocolate products between 2014 and 2018, revealed that 18 of them had shrunk in size. The worst hit by ‘shrinkflation’ in the study was a four-pack of Snickers, which reduced by 28.1%, from 232g to 167g