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TIL Colonel Sanders moved to Canada, settling in Mississauga, ON after selling his U.S. KFC rights in 1965 — and apparently left such a mark they named a hospital wing 🍗 after him.

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aQJM TIL Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge was named after George La Forge, a quadriplegic Trek fan who passed away in 1975.
6998l TIL: Back in 1910, Citibank took over the national bank of Haiti, which besides being the sole commercial bank also served as the Haitian treasury and then in 1915 after both withholding Haitian funds and paying rebels to destabilize the country, the bank pressured the US Government to occupy Haiti
WkNZY TIL that Doctor Min Chiu Li was fired from the NIH in the 1950s because he gave chemotherapy to patients even after their tumors appeared to be gone. After firing him, the NIH discovered the long-term survival rates for his patients were far superior to conventional treatments.
J1Bk TIL: The world’s smallest hard drive is only 96 atoms big.
9wJOp TIL in 1958 the USAF lost a nuclear bomb in the waters off Georgia as the result of a mid-air collision. It has never been found.