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TIL: After one of his employees was shot and killed during a shootout, Colonel Sanders grabbed a gun and shot the perpetrator in the shoulder.

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69NoY TIL that Pope Valentine (827AD) became Pope of the Roman Catholic Church before he had even been ordained as a priest.
nWBOo TIL that Australian scientists accidentally developed pain-free blood sugar testing for diabetics while working on solar cells.
vPZYD TIL that the cookiecutter shark is named because it gouges out round plugs of flesh from its prey, as if they had been attacked with a cookie cutter. The plugs average 5 cm (2 in) across and 7 cm (2.8 in) deep, and virtually all medium-to-large size animals sharing their habitat are open to attack.
1ajRW TIL that it was possible to buy your way out of the Civil War draft, on both the Union and Confederate sides, if you had enough money to pay someone else to sign up in your place.
b94BQ TIL The PBS kids show, Arthur, is the longest-running children's animated series in the U.S., and the second longest-running animated series in the U.S., behind The Simpsons. PBS is still putting out new episodes, and 23 seasons in total have been produced and aired since 1996.