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TIL that Les Grands Buffets, an all you can eat buffet in France is one of the highest earning restaurants in France having made €24 million euros in revenue in 2023.

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NjMM TIL that Hummer drivers were statistically the worst drivers on the road, averaging 5x more traffic violations than any other vehicle.
VBam TIL Prostitution is legal in Canada
WkmBB TIL that in the 1960s the CIA paid climbers to put nuclear powered spy devices in the Himalayas to monitor Chinese nuclear weapons tests. Some of the devices were left unattended and were subsequently lost.
loJma TIL Keanu Reeves often foregoes some of his paycheck so that producers can bring on other notable actors. On The Devil's Advocate, he reduced his salary by a few million dollars so that they could afford Al Pacino, and he did the same thing on The Replacements to be able to work with Gene Hackman.
e0Pak TIL of Deborah Sampson (1760-1827), who fought in the Revolutionary War as Robert Shurtleff and was the only Revolutionary woman to earn a full military pension. Her identity was discovered a year and a half into her service when she fell ill during an epidemic and lost consciousness.