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TIL Colonel Sanders and Muhammad Ali are buried at the same cemetery.

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b6DN7 TIL: The Big Dig, Boston's megaproject (1991–2007), rerouted I-93 into the O'Neill Tunnel, extended I-90 via the Ted Williams Tunnel, and added the Zakim Bridge and Rose Kennedy Greenway, transforming the city's infrastructure.
KOnl6 TIL of the Bat Bomb, an experimental American WW2 weapon - a large canister filled with 1,040 bats, each carrying their own weight in napalm. Despite promising results, development progressed too slowly and the Bat Bob was abandoned in favour of the atomic bomb.
ROv6 TIL that in 1994, Disney purchased the film rights for a movie centered on the Hasbro toy Stretch Armstrong. Danny DeVito was offered and accepted the titular role, but only on the stipulation that there be no jokes regarding his height. The film was subsequently scrapped.
GAojN TIL George H. W. Bush served as the US Ambassador to the United Nations during the Nixon administration
vPN4K TIL Paul McCartney reached out to victims of the Lac-Megantic train disaster and gave free tickets to his Quebec City show to survivors two weeks after the incident. 47 people were killed from the explosion and about 2,000 people were forced to flee the area