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TIL - Prior to 1879 solid chocolate was gritty and not popular until Rodolphe Lindt mistakenly left a mixer containing chocolate running overnight.

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66vw TIL Felix Landau, of the Nazi Einsatzgruppen (death squads), once shot and killed the Jewish personal dentist of a fellow officer. That officer, as an act of revenge, killed Landau’s ‘favorite jew’, the artist Bruno Schulz. He later told Landau “You killed my jew - I killed yours.”
Qybk TIL Chex Cereal Made a Chex Themed First Person Shooter in the 90’s. Two sequels were made.
rNbOe TIL "Life expectancy" isn't adjusted for infant mortality. It's simply an average # of years a human is expected to live from birth. Nowhere, at no time, were adults just dropping dead at 35 or 45 years old, not even in hunter/gatherer societies. Childhood deaths skewed the figures.
p8A1A TIL When a 39-year old James Watson lectured at the Lindau Meeting in 1967, he was the second youngest Nobel Laureate to do so. The youngest, Rudolf Mößbauer, Nobel Laureate in Physics 1961, gave his first Lindau lecture at the unusually low age of 36
VZnB TIL in Turin Italy, you must walk your dog 3 times a day or face a fine.