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TIL Colonel SANDERs got fired from a dozen jobs; was a lawyer who once assaulted his own client in court; started a restaurant that when went out of business and found himself broke at the age of 65; That’s when he started KFC

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a8kJb TIL McDonald's used to have a playground structure widely known as the Big Mac Climber
O8p1 TIL that in 2003, American soldiers in Iraq vandalized the 6,000 year old Sumerian city of Ur by spraypainting “Semper Fe” on its walls. No response was made by the US government to the allegations.
p5v8 TIL there is a band that only uses Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie lines in their songs
E7bW TIL South Park creators Parker & Stone announced the start of their own indie studio by saying, “Having worked with several different studios over the years, we came to realize that our favorite people in the world are ourselves.”
d8and TIL In the longest-running study of gifted children ever, scientists followed 5,000 kids who tested in the top one percent of intelligence for over four decades. It suggests that early cognitive intelligence has more effect on success than deliberate practice or outside factors