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

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JDDm TIL that watermelons in Japan are square because it makes them easier to store and pack
ODog TIL that Peanut Butter Is The Key To A Simple Test For Alzheimer’s. If patients had difficulty smelling peanut butter in one nostril over the other, they most likely had the disease
W7J1L TIL Ariana Grande gets less than 10% of the royalties for her 2019 single "7 Rings". Most of it goes to the estate of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, the songwriters of "My Favourite Things"
j6Pkp TIL that James Joyce's book "Dubliners" took 9 years to be published, on the stipulation that he wouldn’t receive royalties on the first 500 copies. Though debuted to positive reviews, the book eventually sold exactly 499 copies—one short of Joyce being able to profit from it.
b9DNQ TIL that the same Klan group who lost the fight against the Lumbee also lost a firefight to a group of black WWII veterans who were protecting the house of one of the Klan's targets.