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TIL Pepsi owns KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza hut
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TIL that during the attack on Pearl Harbor the USS Aylwin, with only 50% of her crew and under the command of an Ensign, made it out of the Harbor and was able to effectively engage the enemy. She remained under the command of the Ensign for over a day while she conducted combat patrols.
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TIL Bruce Lee's first student was a black man named Jesse Glover. Glover would also end up becoming Lee's first assistant instructor in the U.S. Glover helped teach Lee about the state of race relations in the U.S at the time.
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TIL Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which flows around Antarctica in a clockwise direction, is the largest ocean current in the world.
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TIL the last man executed by electric chair in the U.S. was removed from the death penalty on appeal. Thinking this made him immune, he boasted of his crimes, supplying evidence which allowed him to be re-convicted and then executed.
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TIL that their are 17 flavors of Maruchan instant ramen including ones like lime chili shrimp