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TIL Nestle has sold over 200 flavors of Kit Kat to Japan, including soy sauce, creme brulee, green tea, and banana.

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jNygn TIL that a 2-Ton Elephant escaped from a farm in New York's Catskills mountains and roamed its forests for 2 weeks in November 1957 before it was peacefully recaptured 7 miles away.
g4Ay TIL that ancient Greeks invented the modern shower using piped water. Rich and poor used large locker-room showers with bars to hang up clothing. Ancient Romans did the same, bringing showers to as far as England. The systems and habits of bathing every day disappeared after the fall of Rome.
8Lwb TIL Aristotle believed that the brain was just a minor organ for cooling the blood and heart and a place for the spirit to reside.
E0YW TIL Ferrari engines are musically engineered to sound perfect by utilizing 3rd and 6th harmonics on the air intake, like an organ or flute
dmW9 TIL Katy Perry’s music video for “Dark Horse” has been praised by Egyptologists for its accuracy to the Cleopatra myth.