Fun Facts

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The original 1935 Kit Kat recipe (originally launched as Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp) relied on a simple formula of standard milk chocolate, sugar, wheat flour, and yeast, whereas today’s versions are highly regionalized, chemically stabilized, and incorporate specific factory-processing shortcuts.

Modern production has introduced several modern processing ingredients, specialized fats, and a famously circular manufacturing “secret” that did not exist in the original 1935 recipe.

The formulation has shifted dramatically from a traditional confection to an optimized, highly engineered snack.

 

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Arts & Culture​

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Why Were People Tied to Train Tracks in Old Movies?​

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It’s one of the most recognizable images in movie history: a helpless victim bound to railroad tracks, and a locomotive bearing down as a hero races in for a last-second rescue. Here’s how the railroad rescue became so familiar that it turned into shorthand for old-fashioned villainy.

 

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Why We Knock on Wood, and the Origins of 7 Other Superstitions​ Are you careful around ladders, mirrors, and salt? In many cases, the origins of these superstitions have multiple layers, meaning they might go back to pagan, Christian, medieval, or Victorian beliefs all at once. In other cases, the story is far more modern than you might think. [td] [td width="100%"] Read More ​

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Your science fact of the day​

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Tree Pangolins do not have any teeth. Instead, they swallow their food (typically ants or termites) whole. Then their muscular stomachs grind the insects down into a digestible form using the sand and small stones that they swallowed during the eating process.​

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image source: animals.sandiegozoo.org​

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10 TV shows that changed everything Discover There’s no way you haven’t watched at least one of them. Groundbreaking, radical, and revolutionary: these TV shows are all that and more. From The Simpsons to Sex and the City, from The Sopranos to Law & Order, these series reshaped storytelling and how we think about our work, our friendships, and our love lives. Get ready to rediscover 10 beloved, incredibly entertaining shows that turned everything upside down. Read full article

 

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Fact of the DayBirds Roosters have built-in earplugs. By Tony Dunnell A rooster’s crow is typically about 80 to 90 decibels but can reach 142 decibels right next to its own head — that’s louder than a chainsaw and enough to risk hearing damage with repeated exposure. You may reasonably think, then, that roosters must regularly go deaf from their own calls, but roosters have evolved a nifty trick to avoid hearing damage. When they fully open their beaks to crow, a specially adapted anatomical arrangement automatically closes off a quarter of their ear canal and half of the eardrum. That temporary closure acts like a natural earplug, significantly reducing the sound intensity. As a result, roosters can produce their powerful vocalizations day after day without destroying the sensitive hair cells in their inner ears. So why make all that noise in the first place?

 

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World History​

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Greenland is icy and Iceland is green, as the saying goes, and for the most part it’s true. Nearly 80% of Greenland’s surface area is covered in glaciers, compared to just 10% to 14% of Iceland’s, which has led many to observe that the two remote islands should probably switch names. The reason they never will has to do with one man.

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Gravity in Canada’s Hudson Bay area is weaker than in other parts of the world.​

Earth is far from the perfect “blue marble” we like to picture. In reality, our planet is filled with deep trenches, towering mountains, and centrifugal bulges that make its mass uneven across the globe — and that unequal distribution can really mess with gravity. One famous example is the Hudson Bay region in northeastern Canada, where gravity reaches some of its weakest levels in the entire world. So what does this mean for people who live near there?

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Arts & Culture​

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Mary Shelley’s gothic horror has spawned numerous adaptations, many of which are beloved in their own right. For a look back at this seminal novel, here’s a brief history of Frankenstein.

 

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