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TIL that Chinese Pizza Hut removed all salad bars as patrons would exploit the one-bowl rule by constructing a massive salad tower. Many people created extremely complicated and articulate engineering structures. Multiple people even successfully submitted them as civil engineering class projects.

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VBXK8 TIL research suggests "huh?" is a universal syllable. It's used to express confusion in at least 31 different languages, e.g. Icelandic, Dutch, Japanese, Hungarian, Lao, the Aboriginal Australian language Murriny Patha, Cha’palaa (spoken by 3k indigenous Ecuadorians), and of course, English.
E08o TIL: The most popular of the US national media sources—Fox, CNN, MSNBC—seem to be the least informative, while Fox news actually makes you less informed than watching no news at all.
vPmlr TIL a young Vietnamese woman named Phan Thi Mao was kidnapped and repeatedly abused by US soldiers in 1966, only one of the men decided to report the situation, all of the responsible people were convicted but eventually acquitted, this event later became known as the “incident on Hill 192”
m1GWE TIL That in the UK? You require a TV license to watch or stream any live content, barring PPV content. (Learned this after reading an article about the Tyson vs Paul fight)
W5A4 TIL during the Manhattan Project, a production race was held between two calutrons, one run by “hillbilly” girls and the other run by Ph.Ds. The girls won the contest because “the scientists could not refrain from time-consuming investigation of the cause of even minor fluctuations of the dials”