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TIL the secret blend of 11 herbs and spices that made KFC famous is sold by Marion-Kay Spices under the name “99-X”.

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ADbpw TIL of Japan group "Kakuhido" which roughly translates as "Revolutionary Alliance of Men that Women find Unattractive," founded by a man dumped by his girlfriend on Christmas. On Valentine's Day 2015, 7 men showed up to march in protest of the commercialized day where women buy chocolate for men.
l4ja TIL that when Noam Chomsky was asked to demonstrate his point that sentences could be grammatical yet nonsensical, he came up with the sentence: “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”
Oo0Ea TIL rain does not impact the flying ability of a helicopter. There is no noticeable performance decrease due to 'rain alone'.
LQyy0 TIL that the psychiatrist Henry Cotton would sometimes extract all of a patient's teeth as he believed infected teeth to be the cause of psychiatric disorders. If that didn't work, he'd remove testicles, ovaries, gall bladders, stomachs, spleens, cervixes and colons.
xVJd7 TIL about the Cadaver Synod. In 897 Rome, the deceased Pope Formosus was dug up, tried in the Papal Court for "crimes", found guilty, was stripped of Papal title, 3 fingers were cut off and the body buried in a graveyard meant for foreigners. Then it was re-exhumed and thrown in the Tiber River.