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TIL Colonel Sanders didn't start KFC until he was in his 60s

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WOPY TIL The duffel bag gets its name from the town of Duffel, Belgium, where the thick cloth used to make the bag originated.
a8m5L TIL the portrayal of "Minnesota nice" and distinctive regional accents in the movie Fargo (1996) caused locals to receive repeated requests from tourists to say "Yah, you betcha" and other tag lines from the movie.
0d1Mj TIL ostriches, the fastest and largest extant bipedal terrestrial animal, can run for 30 minutes at 50 km/h (31.1 mph) and can also move at a speed of 70 km/h (43.5 mph) for short sprints. Interestingly, unlike other birds, ostriches have only two toes on each foot.
X0woD TIL in his autobiographical account of taking on monopolies, Roosevelt recounted: “...we had come to the stage where for our people what was needed was a real democracy; and of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of a plutocracy.”
ed0n TIL that pan-African nations have come together pledging to build a 15 kilometer wide band of trees that will stretch all the way across Africa, 7500 kilometer, in order to stop the progressive advancement of the Sahara.