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

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M7yv8 TIL about the death of Mary Jane Barker. She was a 4-year-old who disappeared alongside her friend Maria Freitta's dog in February 1957. In March, Maria found her corpse alongside the still-alive dog in a closet in a new vacant house near the Freittas' house.
7rP5P TIL that the 2002 TV film It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie has the Twin Towers standing in an alternate reality where an angel shows Kermit the Frog what the world would be like had he never been born.
oRo8A TIL about Bishnu Shrestha, a Nepalese-Ghurka soldier who went up against 30+ train robbers after they tried SAing an 18yo near him. He refused money offered by her family, saying "Fighting the enemy in battle is my duty as a soldier. Taking on the thugs on the train was my duty as a human being".
R7KjQ TIL there was a general strike in Seattle in 1919 that lasted for six days, which supposedly resulted in "creating the first Red Scare" in America
BgL5e TIL that Gene Kelly was sick while filming the iconic scene from “Singin’ in the rain”.