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TIL when Stanley Kubrick made "The Killing", a 1956 noir heist film, the studio demanded he add in a narrator to explain the nonlinear order of events so the audience wouldn't get confused. Kubrick eventually added the narration which gave the audience inaccurate times to confuse them further.

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W74VB TIL that in 1990s China, Pizza Hut customers turned “one-trip” salad bars into engineering feats. Using cucumber walls, dense cores of beans or carrots, and alternating layers of lettuce, fruit, and meat, they built towering salads that defied gravity-leading Pizza Hut to ban salad bars entirely.
v17Rj TIL a 2017 study found that the average adult currently enjoys sex 54 times a year, which equates to about once a week. Another study published in 2015 found that the once weekly frequency was the Goldilocks standard for happiness.
OGr4 TIL in 1985 Jeff Goddard, a Domino’s Pizza franchisee, invented the Spoodle, a combination spoon/ladle that allowed him to win the World’s Fastest Pizza Maker competition. They are now in use throughout the food service industry
R7Gwj TIL Indian intelligence first confirmed Pakistani covert nuclear weapons program by collecting hair samples from the floors of local barber shops in Kahuta.
XNvj TIL that watching Home Alone is a national tradition in Poland at Christmastime. When the network owning the rights opted not to show it in 2010, there were national protests. Over 10% of the population of Poland will watch this broadcast live annually.