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TIL that 1/4 of the worlds hazelnuts are used by Ferrero, the company behind Nutella and related candies

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yKV8 TIL “She Bop” by Cyndi Lauper was a song about masturbation. Initially she wanted children to hear and be inspired to dance, but get the meaning when they were much older. In 1984 the album had a parental advisory label for content.
neXG7 TIL 5 teenagers died after a fire in escape rooms in Poland. Poland’s interior minister then ordered fire safety inspections at more than 1,000 escape room locations across the country. Previously, there was no official requirement for fire safety certificates at such locations.
dDaeK TIL that the Pythagorean theorem must have been known before Pythagoras, because it is used in a proof on a Babylonian clay tablet dated about 12 centuries before the birth of Pythagoras.
9wNlD TIL Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis & Clark expedition, mysteriously died on Oct. 10, 1809, just three years after their mission's end. His close friends, including Thomas Jefferson, believed he committed suicide...but his family claimed he was murdered. The true cause of death is still contested.
00ev TIL about the Flyby Anomaly: when spacecraft do Earth-flybys at certain angles, they experience a small but sudden velocity increase, which is still unexplained. One of the proposed explanations is the existence of a ring of dark matter around Earth.