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 1. The authentic title of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice used to be First Impressions. (jasna.org) 2. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein when she 18, at some stage in a ghost story opposition whilst staying in Switzerland with writers Percy Shelley (her lover) and Lord Byron. (penguinrandomhouse.com) 3. German chocolate cake doesn’t come from Germany. It used to be named for a person, Sam German, who created a kind of baking chocolate for Baker’s in 1852. (npr.org) 4. Hawaiian pizza used to be created in Ontario, Canada, via Greek immigrant Sam Panopoulos in 1962. (cbc.ca) 5. Almost all commercially grown artichokes, 99.9 percent, come from California. One city in particular, Castroville, is nicknamed “the Artichoke Capital of the World.” (visitcalifornia.com) 6. The unique hues of Froot Loops cereal all style the same—they’re no longer character flavors. (time.com) 7. What’s inner a Kit Kat? Broken Kit Kats that are broken all through production—they get floor up and go between t...