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TIL the founder of the Nobel Prizes was also the inventor of dynamite

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W7gR4 TIL KFC founder Colonel Sanders and his wife, Claudia had grown unhappy with recipe changes at KFC after selling the company. So in 1968, they opened Claudia Sanders Dinner House. It was later subject to a lawsuit by the new owners of KFC that was settled out of court.
l8lB TIL that the Norwegian army has knighted a penguin
bD1N TIL a man has invented a machine to convert plastic back into oil
8adRb TIL that Ben-Hur, the book whose movie adaptation won a record 11 Oscars, was written by a Civil War general. He also ordered the arrest of Billy the Kid.
yQW6e TIL Yoko Ono, Nina Simone, Quincy Jones, Willie Nelson, Carol Burnett, James Brown, Joan Rivers, Gene Wilder, Julie Newmar, Roman Polanski, Conway Twitty, Larry King, and Emperor Akihito were all the same age, born in 1933.