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TIL that people in Japan celebrate Christmas with a KFC Bucket

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MpPa TIL that Haiti is the only nation in the western hemisphere to have defeated 3 European superpowers, and the only nation on earth to have been founded by a successful slave revolt
AD7nn TIL that Nike had conditions before giving rookie Michael Jordan a record contract: Either be rookie of the year, or average 20 ppg, or be an all star, or sell $4 mill worth shoes in a year. Jordan was rookie of the year, scored 28.2 ppg, named all star, and Nike sold $100 mill of shoes in 1984-85.
awwn0 TIL that the sting of the tarantula hawk wasp is so painful the medical advice is to lie down and scream
8lRV TIL the president of Algeria in 1992 was assassinated during a speech, his last words being “Look at those developed countries that are way ahead of us, why? they are ahead of us because of science, but the Islamic countries…”
QJdVd TIL in 2016, a K5 security robot accidentally ran over a 16-month-old toddler and then drove off, in what’s surely one of the first robotic hit and runs.