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TIL there are no KFCs in Tibet in part because the Dalai Lama wrote them a letter explaining how the mass slaughter of chickens violated Tibet’s traditional values.

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0bb1 TIL At the height of apartheid in South Africa the most popular television show among whites was The Cosby Show. During the apartheid government’s State of Emergency in the mid 1980s when it was illegal to publish photos of Mandela, Bill Cosby became the most recognizable black man in South Africa
l7N6G TIL Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also known as prion diseases has no known treatment and cure and is 100% fatal
XEDwQ TIL scientists made a mouse utopia called Universe 25. It started with 4 males and 4 females, peaked at 2200 mice, then declined to extinction - the mice lost instinctual behavors. Humans now demonstrate similar traits.
QNGkL TIL Beatle historians consider their infamous "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" to be the song that broke them up, as it showed that a Lennon-McCartney song was always picked to be recorded over a George Harrison song, no matter the quality of the Harrison song
OGP6R TIL: In 1989, musician Jon Bon Jovi secretly left his tour and headed to Las Vegas to marry his high school sweetheart, Dorothea Hurley. They have four children and are still married. One of their sons is engaged to actress Millie Bobby Brown.