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TIL there are more fried chicken restaurants in Korea than there are McDonalds and Subways (combined) globally

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YpoOG TIL at 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake, Canadian ice makers secretly hid a loonie (dollar coin) at center ice of the hockey rink. After both Canadian men and women hockey teams won gold, the "lucky loonie" was put in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Canadians still hide coins at the Olympics for luck.
7LBZ TIL Sam Worthington was broke and living in his car when he landed the lead role of Jake Sully in Avatar
4kbJw TIL that while working as a HS teacher, Rey Johnson invented the automated test scoring and sold it to IBM. The company hired him and he went on to lead the team that invented the Hard Disk Drive
5npP TIL prior to the 1970’s, South Africa sold a ‘jawbreaker’ like candy called “Niggerballs”.
KOPww TIL Walgreens found early major success during Prohibition, by filling whiskey prescriptions.