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TIL COLONEL SANDERS Tried to sell his recipes to other restaurants. His recipe was rejected 1,009 times, When finally in 1952, He sold his secret recipe "Kentucky Fried Chicken" for the first time to the operator of one of the city's largest restaurants.A 6th grade drop out, fired from multiple jobs

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9wvg6 TIL the saung, a type of arched harp that’s the national musical instrument of Myanmar, is ancient: it’s believed to have been introduced to the country from India as early as 500 CE.
wokl6 TIL that gazing at one's own face in the mirror for a few minutes, at a low illumination level, produces the apparition of strange faces
6EyW8 TIL That "Learning Styles" such as Auditory, Visual, and Kinesthetic have no real scientific backing.
d8R9E TIL the ‘Swiss Army Man’ directors had a dummy made up of Daniel Radcliffe, assuming he didn’t want to do the weird, nude, farting stunts and lay around in dirt. But he loved it so much, he insisted on doing every scene.
woKX8 TIL that Frank Zappa was mobbed by TV reporters at Prague airport, much to the shock of Shirley Temple who was the then-ambassador to Czechoslovakia.