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TIL Ronald Reagan won 49 out of 50 states in his 2nd term election, only losing Minnesota by less than 4000 votes.

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Vmw0 TIL that Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has become one of Japan’s favorite Christmas tradition
D1XVJ TIL In 2014 two chemists co-authored a paper describing all those consumer products appropriately labelled as “chemical free”. The paper was blank.
D4jr TIL The potato has been studied by NASA as an important food source for long space voyages, and that the amount of potato plants (grown on board a space ship) needed to sustain one astronaut is also the amount of potato plant required to process the air breathed by one astronaut.
KOZDR TIL William Still, the father of the Underground Railroad, interviewed and kept records of every escaped slave he came across. Once, while interviewing a man, he discovered that the man was actually his long-lost brother.
mxXgx TIL in 1964, Warren Buffett agreed to selling shares of a failing company for $11.50 per share. The written offer was for only $11.375, so Buffett bought more stock, took control of the company and fired the man who made the offer. The company was Berkshire Hathaway.