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TIL In 1961, Gainesville established a city ordinance that prohibits diners from eating fried chicken with anything other than their bare hands.

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9wMOM TIL of Patrick Kilonzo Mwalua who drives over 70km a week to deliver water for wild animals in Tsavo, Kenya.
Egovx TIL, children born in the early to mid-1980s are called "The DuckTales Generation" in Hungary, because their first encounter with politics happened in 1993, when a DuckTales episode they've been waiting for all week was cut short to announce the death of Prime Minister József Antall.
99N7 TIL Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson comes from a wide family of American Samoan professional wrestlers called the Anoa'i.
WyY8 TIL that the wrinkling of fingers after long exposure to water is not due to water absorption, but is a nervous system response that can be disabled by nerve damage.
EReP TIL that North Korea did not return tens of thousands of South Korean POWs after the Korean War in 1953. They and their children were forced to work in coal mines for decades; 79 escaped from 1994 to 2009. Nine hundred US soldiers also may not have been returned.