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TIL Hershey's does not meet the legal minimum cocoa content to be described as chocolate in Britain

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GKRG TIL in WWI the British dug tunnels 120 feet underground to lay 22 mines beneath German trenches. Exploded at 3AM, the mines took out 10,000 German soldiers and an entire town in a “detonation now known as history’s deadliest non-nuclear, man-made explosion.”
xQmD TIL that during the time that Pol Pot ruled Cambodia, at least 1.4 million Cambodians were killed or died. Some individuals loyal to him were even killed for failing to find enough “counter-revolutionaries” to execute.
yVQl TIL Artist Bryan Lewis Saunders once took a different drug every day for several weeks, making a portrait of himself while under the influence of each drug.
d8P69 TIL that Darth Vader’s name was partially inspired by one of George Lucas’ high school classmates, Gary Vader.
8GDb TIL Bruce Lee actually hit Jackie Chan during filming of the 1973 classic “Enter the Dragon,” but neither broke character until the director called cut [1:49]