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TIL Japan has over 200 Kit Kat flavors (including wasabi)

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wGr6 TIL that “You can’t eat your cake and have it, too” is the correct form of the proverb, because its order is what illustrates the impossibility. The Unabomber got the order correct in both his manifesto & private writing & this was 1 of the linguistic anachronisms that helped the FBI identify him
KOOW4 TIL that the official definition of 1 second is based on a quantum mechanical phenomenon, namely "the duration of 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a Caesium 133 atom's outermost electron"
WkD18 TIL the last time Germany did not make an appearance at the FIFA World Cup was 1950, when it was banned from entering.
bNYQ TIL China hacked into the US military network using infected PDF files and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities to steal information about the military drone fleet
m1YBO TIL 57.5% of College Graduates Don't Work in Their Field of Study