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Poet Who Invited Egging
- William McGonagall accepted circus readings where audiences could pelt him with eggs and other foodstuffs for 15 shillings a show.
- He walked from Dundee to Balmoral to offer to read for Queen Victoria and was refused despite calling himself "the Queen's poet."
Ferrero Dominates The Hazel Market
- Ferrero (Nutella, Ferrero Rocher, Tic Tac) consumes about one third of the world's hazelnuts and sources most from Turkey.
- The company reuses hazelnut shells as cheap heating fuel and experimented with using shells in packaging to reduce waste.
Hazelnut Frost And The Globe
- A single Turkish region produces a huge share of global hazelnuts and once lost a third of its harvest to frost in 2014, spiking prices 60%.
- The Globe reconstruction used 7.5 tons of hazelnut shells as a historical 'poor man's mortar' under the floor.