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TIL that KFC sells poutine in Canada

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Yp7N7 TIL that when Andy Samberg's comedy trio, The Lonely Island, was making a TV pilot in 2000 they were filming a scene in which an elderly lady is getting mugged when Kiefer Sutherland happen to walk by and tried to stop it thinking it was real.
mweE TIL that the creator of the Soviet Union’s Olympic Hockey program, Anatoli Tarasov, began coaching without every watching a single game of hockey. He created game strategy and training regimens based off the Olympic hockey rule book.
p8dP4 TIL the Crips main founder was appalled to find his organization escalating from fist-fights of his era to gun fights, and hoped to build a truce with the Bloods before distancing himself and ultimately dying in a drive-by.
6MGl TIL that, in the late 980’s, Vladimir the Great chose to Christianize Russia rather than Islamisize it partly due to Islam’s ban on alcohol, saying, “Drinking is the joy of the Rus’, we can’t go without it.”
DYVp TIL That the original users of the contraction, “Ain’t” were actually members of England’s upperclass