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TIL Nutella and Ferrero Rocher chocolates are made by the same company.

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a8GQ9 TIL that in 1933, a man named A.L. Kahn caught a massive 20-foot, 5,000-pound manta ray off the coast of New Jersey. It took hours, the help of his crew, and even several dozen gunshots from the U.S. Coast Guard to finally reel in what was called a "devil fish."
rROnd TIL a slave from Mozambique called Yasuke was the first black samurai in the history of Japan
8exRV TIL when filming Mr. Smith Goes to Washington the Park Service did not want Frank Capra to film at the Lincoln Memorial, so he sent a large crew elsewhere as a distraction while a smaller crew filmed Stewart and Jean Arthur inside the Memorial
QNNb9 TIL the movie ‘My Neighbor Totoro’, which released in 1988, only had eight animators working on it for eight months.
P1MML TIL that a Florida man conducted a hoax for ten years, starting in 1948, that a 4.5m-high penguin was visiting Clearwater Beach. A biologist suggested that the tracks were genuine on account of how they matched animal behaviour. The hoax was revealed in 1988.