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TIL KFC No Longer Serves Potato Wedges

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b4O0 TIL After JFK was assassinated, there was a brief scuffle between local and federal authorities when the President’s security detail wasn’t allowed to remove his body from the hospital. It ended when the Secret Service agents put the local officials against the wall at gunpoint.
bLVE TIL the eastern part of Laos was so heavily bombed that most people can supplement their income by collecting scrap metal 40 years later, some completely rely on it
BreAD TIL Australia constructed a number of pest-exclusion fences in an (unsuccessful) attempt to control rabbit and dingo populations - at one time, the rabbit-proof fence was the longest unbroken fence in the world
8a6JL TIL that when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Canada declared war on Japan before the United States did.
AN5Wx TIL Amalgam (silver colored tooth fillings) are partially made of mercury and each year 3.6 million tons of mercury are released into the environment from cremations of people with these fillings