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TIL: Up until 2013, Pizza Hut was the largest buyer of kale in the U.S.

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X6YQ TIL in 2005, a man received a penis transplant for the first time in history after his own was severed in an accident. Two weeks after the procedure took place, it had to be removed “because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife”
0donR TIL poker players used to call an off-suit Ace-King an "Anna Kournikova". This is for two reasons: first is that it's her initials, and much like Anna herself, an off-suit AK looks really good but rarely ever wins.
6all TIL different metals make distinct patterns of sparks when struck
D1mDp TIL that variable gears on a bicycle predate the motor vehicle by almost 20 years.
69vRJ TIL in 1965, Air India airlines commissioned Salvador Dali to design an ashtray for the airlines. Dali requested an elephant as fees so the airline flew a two year old elephant from Bangalore to Geneva. After Dali lost interest, the elephant was taken to the Barcelona Zoo in 1971.