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TIL Americans at large consume 350 slices of pizza per second, or 46 slices each on average, per year

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yV85e TIL the chicken nugget was invented in the 1950s by Robert C. Baker, a food science professor at Cornell University, and published as unpatented academic work. This bite-sized piece of chicken, coated in batter and then deep fried, was called the "Chicken Crispie" by Baker and his associates.
XELv6 TIL of SR-71 Blackbird test pilot Bill Weaver, who survived a free fall from space after his plane disintegrated around him doing Mach 3.2
gMy08 TIL after a passenger airline was shot down after accidentally entering Soviet airspace, President Ronald Reagan decided to authorize the U.S. military’s satellite-based global positioning system (GPS) for civilian use in order to prevent similar tragedies.
m1XYY TIL The chocolate bar Milky Way is called Mars Bar by the non-US world, and what the US calls Three Musketeers is called Milky Way everywhere else
Qpb9 TIL that while some American restaurants have eliminated tipping, many have had to re-instate it after the “no-tipping” experiment failed. One restaurant lost 70% of its tipped staff. Another “couldn’t compete in the market” and was “faced with the options of raising prices […] or bailing out.”