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TIL that Colonel Sanders, founder of KFC, was buried wearing his iconic white suit and string bowtie

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a896L TIL of Frigg Fjord, the northernmost settlement in human history. In northern Greenland, it is 544km (338mi) farther north than Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Inhabited even in winter approximately 2400 years ago, inhabitants would have spent 139 straight days with the sun below the horizon.
pA5Z TIL that every US President is/was related to George Washington, except Gerald Ford.
Jkg4 TIL In Japan 11/11 is celebrated as Pocky Day, a celebration of a popular candy
5YEa8 TIL that more than 27 million Americans went hunting in 2016 and that it generates nearly $3.5 billion yearly in federal, state and local taxes.
WxyX TIL that Cher’s “Believe” was the first song to use Auto-Tune, and that it was initially known as the “Cher Effect”