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TIL Peter from the American folk group Peter, Paul, and Mary is a convicted sex offender.

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epRVn TIL that Calling football “soccer” originated in Britain 200 years ago. It wasn’t until the 1980s that Britain began to phase out the name because it was too American.
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xVOlo TIL that when trying to expand into the China in the late 1980s, KFC mistakenly mistranslated their famous “It’s Finger Lickin’ Good” slogan to “Eat Your Fingers Off”
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