From Mental Floss:
Here’s a little conversation fodder you can pass out on Monday along with the fun-size candy bars:
1. Remember the Seinfeld episode where a Junior Mint falls into the open chest cavity of a patient? M&M's and Life Savers turned down the show before the Junior Mints people signed on. No money changed hands.
2. The 3 Musketeers originally included three smaller bars: one vanilla, one chocolate, and one strawberry. (Hence the name.) When the ingredients became too costly during World War II, the 3 Musketeers became a single chocolate bar.
3. Toblerone is a portmanteau of the creator's name, Theodor Tobler, and "torrone," an Italian word for a type of nougat.
4. The M&M in M&M's stand for...
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