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TIL New Guinean tribes attempted to domesticate cassowaries eighteen thousand years ago

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mPXE TIL Ted Turner has twice challenged Rupert Murdoch to a fist fight. Once when a Murdoch-sponsored yacht collided with his boat, sinking it; the other for supporting the invasion of Iraq
R5Rl8 TIL Limerick, Ireland is the only place in the world with the orginal KFC recipe because Pat Grace who owns Chicken Hut was best friends with Colonel Sanders, and Sanders passed on the recipe to Grace before he died.
nWnKo TIL the term “gaslighting” originates in a British play-turned film from the 1930s. The play was called “Gas Light” and the plot is about a husband who mentally and emotionally manipulates his wife into believing she is crazy by changing the intensity of the gas lamps within their home.
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