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TIL Pepsi owns KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza hut

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8eMQK TIL only a slim majority of Americans realize Puerto Ricans are American citizens.
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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.
W76K4 TIL that, back in 1883, the US Supreme Court said that anti-miscegenation laws (laws prohibiting whites and blacks from having sex with one another) do not violate the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause because both whites and blacks are punished equally for engaging in interracial sex.
O98e TIL of a bank in Italy that holds their wealth in cheese rather than currency