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TIL that "Old Town Road" is based around a sample from Nine Inch Nails. Trent Reznor is listed as one of the songwriters.

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WkJBN TIL for several years a company that kept a database of US IP address locations used a point near the geographical center of the US as the default location when the IP address locations were hidden. As a result a farm in Kansas had been targeted by the FBI, IRS, and angry vigilantes.
PYAmg TIL that Colonel Sanders was highly critical of KFC, calling it "a damn fried doughball stuck on some chicken" and "God-damned slop," while denouncing the gravy as "horrible." At times he'd surprise enter a KFC and throw the food on the floor if in disgust.
W7aYY TIL that only the Dutch use a special sign called a ‘krul’ or a ‘flourish of approval’ to indicate approval of schoolwork and other written documents.
j66pN TIL that apples can get sunburned and this is what it looks like
4OMb TIL U.S. Families living in extreme poverty (living on less than $2 per day excluding govt benefits) has doubled to 1.5 million since 1996