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TIL KFC hasn’t stood for Kentucky Fried Chicken since the early 90’s

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Bg4ar TIL the soft foundation soil that gives the Leaning Tower of Pisa its tilt is also the reason why it was able to survive four major earthquakes
x4E5 TIL that the archived materials from Helen Keller’s life were destroyed by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
WXmY TIL Edgar Allen Poe’s novel “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” (1838) had an eerily coincidence with an incident 46 years after it was published, a yacht sank in real life and 3 of the 4 survivors also decided to eat the cabin boy…named Richard Parker.
4kyNb TIL that Samuel L. Jackson was expelled from Morehouse College after he and other students held the Board of Trustees hostage, including Martin Luther King, Jr.'s father. They demanded changes to the curriculum and more black people on the governing board.
aw65b You can use Bernoulli's principle to explain how planes fly—but that isn't the only way.