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

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b6Ykj TIL the SodaStream as been around for 120 years, and first hit the consumer market in 1955
4BVo TIL that Weird Al Yankovic always asks permission to do a parody from the original artist, even though, under the Fair Use Act, he is not legally required to do so.
yRLV TIL that the longest work of fiction is a Super Smash Bros. fanfiction called “The Subspace Emissary’s Worlds Conquest” that is four million words long, and spans 220 chapters as of now. That is twice as long as the longest novel “Men of Goodwill” by Jules Romain which is 2,070,000 words long.
Qaa6 TIL that the Second Congo War was the deadliest war since WWII with 5.4 million deaths.
PVe TIL that President Bill Clinton said he would personally pay the bill to keep the National Christmas Tree lit during the government shutdown resulting from disagreements on the 1996 federal budget