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TIL Kit Kats in the USA taste different than Kit Kats everywhere else in the world

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1jDP TIL In 1997 Morgan Freeman offered to cover the cost of prom for a Mississippi school that held two racially segregated proms every year, provided that the one Freeman would be covering would just be one racially integrated prom. This offer was refused until 2008.
WavY TIL a 1973 Batman porn parody entitled Bat Pussy remained undiscovered in the back room of an adult movie theatre in Tennessee for over 20 years. The film - whose male star is visibly impotent - is often considered the worst pornographic film of all time.
0eNR TIL 78-year-old Dashrath Manjhi in India spent 22 years carving a 1km road through rocky hills, using only a hammer and chisel, to allow people of his isolated village easy access to the nearest town doctor.
KODlB TIL the lost 1920 film "The Skywayman" included the gruesome accidental deaths of two pilots, caused by the ground crew not shutting off the floodlights and accidentally blinding the two men. This wound up making it a very popular film, though no copies exist today.
OWZR TIL the smell of fresh baked bread has been scientifically studied, discovering that the smell makes people more inclined to help each other