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

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yVvGa TIL the condom brand name Durex is an acronym, constructed from the phrase "DURability, REliability and EXcellence".
5YwWB TIL that the model for Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Marge Champion, is still alive and turned 100 this year.
Brdyd TIL German chocolate cake isn't German. It's named after a guy named German.
4k4Wb TIL that the word ‘bomb’ refers to bees, because ancients used to throw beehives as an early sort of grenade
165mW TIL that Europeans starting using the term “Aztec” to refer to the people who lived around the city of Tenochtitlan, but that’s not what they called themselves. They referred to themselves as the Mexica.