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TIL the name for the thin paper that is in every Hershey’s kiss is called a “Niggly Wiggly”

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8WaX TIL There’s a plan to rebuild the colossus of Rhodes
VZB8 TIL that the analysis of the camera of the Surveyor 3 lunar landing probe, which was brought back by the crew of Apollo 12 in 1969, two years after it landed, showed that bacteria that had entered it during manufacturing had survived the lunar conditions.
neARY TIL that around 6 million Polish citizens —nearly 21.4% of Poland's population at the time — died between 1939 and 1945 as a result of the German occupation of the country. It is estimated 90% of those deaths were non-military losses, i.e. murder.
nelOY TIL that Uncle Phil from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air was the voice of Shredder in the original TMNT cartoons.
QNdP9 TIL although the idea that Adam and Eve ate an apple is common, the Book of Genesis never mentions the identity of the forbidden fruit.