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TIL Pizza Hut restaurants in China stopped offering one trip salad bars- due to customer's creating elaborately engineered "salad towers" carefully balanced on one plate.

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J1nKB TIL that in 1960, Sir Edmund Hillary went on an expedition to find evidence of the yeti. He returned with two scraps of fur that locals claimed was “yeti fur,” but was later found to be from the pelt of a rare Tibetan blue bear.
X4OR TIL that odds of dying in a car accident are 1 in 5000. Odds of dying in a plane crash are 1 in 11 million. And even if you are involved in a plane crash, statistically you have a 76% chance of survival.
b6ZkZ TIL King Charles & Prince William always travel in separate planes in case there is a crash, one needs to survive.
x7Z0 TIL Ferrero uses a quarter of the worlds hazelnuts making Nutella.
wLrLo TIL The design of The Simpsons character Dr. Nick Rivera is based somewhat on Klasky Csupo cofounder Gábor Csupó, though the show's animators mistakenly believed Hank Azaria, was impersonating Csupó when Azaria says the voice was actually a "bad" imitation of Ricky Ricardo from I Love Lucy.