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TIL Ferrero uses a quarter of the worlds hazelnuts making Nutella.

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5YQa9 TIL J.K. Rowling wrote to Natalie McDonald, a leukemia patient, the ending of The Goblet of Fire a year early. She died before reading the email so Rowling named a character after her. That character was sorted into Gryffindor.
l7LvN TIL tiramisu, the Italian dessert of coffe-soaked ladyfingers, sweetened marscapone, and cocoa powder is only around fifty years old, having been invented somtime in the late 1960s or early 1970s.
DvdV TIL a Russian hitman named Alexander Solonik (AKA Superkiller) assassinated 30 mob bosses. After leaving contract killing, he becomes Russian mob boss. He is assassinated 2 years later.
BrNrL TIL Lego has no military related sets because the inventor's policy was to not want to make war seem like child's play
oBKVr TIL the Toyota Matrix's odometer has a glitch where it stops 299,999 miles, technically making it a "glitch in the matrix"