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

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0wJdR TIL the pocket calculator, patented in 1967, was one of the earliest uses of rechargable batteries. One of the creators, Jerry Merryman, saw it not just as a pocket calculator, but as an "electionic revolution," bringing buttons, thermal printing, and rechargable batteries to the forefront.
Zpyxo TIL Burnaby, British Columbia announced a 100 year plan in 2019 to transform a large shopping mall into a downtown core with high rises, plazas, walkable streets
krE5 TIL that President Adams said “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”
p7LZ TIL Anna Williams received a bizarre poem lamenting her absence from her home on the night of April 28th, 1979. The author of the letter? The serial killer, BTK, who had been waiting in her bedroom closet that night.
L1kp TIL romantic kissing is a fairly recent development and is rarely mentioned even in ancient Greek literature.