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TIL that Colonel Sanders of KFC never exceeded the rank of private in the US Army, but was later given the title of "Kentucky Colonel" by the Governor of Kentucky, an honorary title for civil service.

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BreaW TIL Washington state will be the first state to allow human composting as a form of burial on May 1, 2020.
WkNYB TIL after slavery in the United States was outlawed by the 13th Amendment in 1865, the Abolitionist newspaper The Liberator reorganized itself as a general news magazine and is now known as The Nation.
oyB7 TIL that a pig in Australia stole 18 beers from a campsite, got drunk, and then tried to fight a cow.
aXa9 TIL of an area in Ohio called Helltown. It became abandoned in the 1970’s when the US government drove citizens from their homes through eminent domain to form national parks. One poor soul scrawled, “This is how the Indians must have felt” on the wall of his former home.
xVYQo TIL Nazi anthropologists tried to infiltrate US Indian Reservations both to study the languages for decryption but also deter enlistment, assuming that because of past history, they would rather revolt than be drafted. Not only did it not work, it may have backfired increasing the enlistment overall