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TIL - Until 2013 Pizza Hut was the largest purchaser of Kale in the US - they used it to decorate the salad bar

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9wQoX TIL about the history of the Enigma machine, a cryptographic device used by the German military during World War II.
7rWwp TIL that the old man that fixes Woody in Toy Story 2 is named Geri, and is actually a character from a previous Pixar short, Geri's Game
p6x8 TIL The script for Being John Malkovich was written exclusively for John Malkovich (without his knowledge). New Line Cinema dropped the film after asking “Why the fuck can’t it be being Tom Cruise?” When John Malkovich first read the script he was “half intrigued and half horrified.”
pY9yA TIL The discovery of the Higgs Boson was announced in Comic Sans font, causing outrage on Twitter - but also highlighting that the benefits of Comic Sans, which has been clinically proven to make reading easier and is used in treating dyslexia.
b9XZZ TIL: During WWII, Meth was an over the counter drug and the German military's heavy use helped the soldiers cover ground the French thought would take them 2 weeks, in 3 days..