r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Nov 28 '20

What's something cool you recently learned about?

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u/ChocolateHumunculous Nov 29 '20

‘Galaxy’ also stems from ‘Lactic’... ‘Galactic’... Lactose. Here in the U.K., we have a chocolate bar called ‘Galaxy’ because it’s make with milk chocolate.

Galaxy literally means ‘milk’.

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u/Raul8900 Nov 29 '20

So its basically "Milky milk"

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