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TIL: That Colonel Sanders got fired from dozens of jobs. Including being a lawyer. He found himself broke at the age of 65, and decided to start KFC.

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gdY9 TIL The same 9,500 person town in Oregon was the filming location for The Goonies, Kindergarten Cop, Free Willy I and II, The Ring Two, and The Guardian, along with others, and it was where the TV Show Dexter was set to end.
pY4LN TIL captions and subtitles are not the same thing. I've used them interchangeably. Captions are a transcription of dialogue and are primarily used to help viewers who cannot hear the audio clearly. Meanwhile, subtitles provide a translation for viewers who don’t understand the language being spoken.
WrDd TIL during the WWII naval battle of Leyte Gulf, an American pilot made repeated attack runs against one of the largest battleships in history, Japan’s Yamato. After running out of ammunition, the pilot continued attacking, throwing a Coke bottle and other loose cockpit articles at the ship’s bridge
QJ8Wk TIL there has been a fire burning since 1962 underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania causing residents to evacuate and has turned the town into a "near-ghost town" with only 7 residents left.
rlre TIL that one theory on why we are ticklish is that it serves as a mechanism for developing combat skills. Most often practiced from parent to child, tickling activates vulnerable areas on the body that develop a defensive reaction while producing laughter that encourages the ‘attacker’ to continue.