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TIL thousands of Enron emails are available online after they were made publicly available when Enron was being investigated by energy regulators

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gMY1b TIL the first KFC restaurant was actually in Utah and was named that way because the sign painter thought "Kentucky Fried Chicken" sounded more exotic. Colonel Sanders did invent and his famous chicken in Kentucky though.
gL8W TIL Stanley Kubrick was asked not to depict room #217 (featured in the book) in The Shining, because future guests at the Lodge might be afraid to stay there. So a nonexistent room, #237, was substituted in the film.
W7NB8 TIL that ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ is a Neil Young disstrack.
Za0o TIL that in Oregon, a citizen may issue a traffic ticket to law enforcement officers
5gkQ TIL Judge Judy isn’t actually a judge on her television show, but is actually playing the role of an arbiter. Also, the show pays for any money awarded to the plaintiff.