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TIL It's tradition in Japan to have KFC on Christmas due to very good marketing in the 70s to 90s.

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W64 TIL that there is a bar in Berlin called ‘the beer stock exchange’ .. the beer prices fall and rise due to supply and demand.
b9mka TIL that Duct Tape was originally called Duck Tape. In WWII, Johnson & Johnson created a waterproof rubber adhesive tape applied to a durable duck cloth backing for use as waterproof sealing tape on ammunition cases: "Duck Tape". Later it was used to seal air ducts in forced-air heating HVAC systems
LkYmr TIL that the first use of an external defibrillator on a human was in 1947 by Claude Beck. The portable version of the defibrillator was invented in the mid-1960s. This machine was a revolutionary idea that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
pLpG TIL that most American toilets don’t have the piss-flush option.
epRVn TIL that Calling football “soccer” originated in Britain 200 years ago. It wasn’t until the 1980s that Britain began to phase out the name because it was too American.