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

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NXbx8 TIL Walmart pulled a "pregnant" Midge doll, who came with baby Nikki inside her magnetic womb and was marketed as Barbie's best friend, after complaints from customers which included: She did not (initially) come with a wedding ring, she promoted teen pregnancy, and was packaged without husband Alan
yQL6a TIL the bit of skin holding the foreskin to the shaft is also known as the banjo string. Overly vigorous masturbation can “snap the banjo string”.
mwEP TIL Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry served in WWII with a pilot named Kim Noonien Singh and lost contact with him following the war’s end. Roddenberry named the villain Khan Noonien Singh after his comrade in hopes that Singh would notice and contact him.
Wk1vL TIL during World War I, both sides used fake trees as spy posts. To make them, engineers would find a dead tree, then take sketches of it and make a detailed replica. At night, they would then would tear out the original tree and replace it with the fake.
7rKxX TIL that Willem Dafoe had to have a penis double for the scenes in Lars von Trier's experimental film Antichrist where his penis was exposed because his own was deemed so large that "everybody [on set] got very confused when they saw it" by the director.