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TIL In 24 states, you will pay sales tax on Hershey’s bars but not on Twix. This is because those states define candy as flour-free in their sales tax code and Twix contains flour, making it a grocery item.

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bL19 TIL There’s a science fiction story, written 2nd century AD (before the Bible) in Roman Syria, that features flying to the moon, contact with aliens, interplanetary war, and the discovery of a continent across the ocean. The name literally translates to “True Stories” or “True History”.
nexgr TIL that Colgate toothpaste is the only brand of anything in the whole world that is bought in over half of all households.
ADL14 TIL that the two most distinctive features of the 'Death Star' in Star Wars—its crater-shaped 'superlaser' and the 'trench' around its circumference—were actually the combined features of two of Saturn's moons, Iapetus and Mimas.
EBdw TIL - The world’s happiest countries are also the countries that take the most antidepressants
01jN TIL the “London Beer Flood” of 1814 spilled 323,000 imperial gallons of beer into the streets of London; killing eight people and destroying two homes.