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TIL that Dave Thomas, the founder of the successful fast food chain, Wendy’s, worked at KFC prior to Wendy’s and was responsible for the red and white striped chicken bucket design.

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Davg TIL there’s a 16-foot-long, 3500 pound, female Great White shark named Mary Lee being tracked while she swims up and down the East coast.
9wNoB TIL that in 1951, Clint Eastwood survived an ocean plane crash off point Reyes. Surviving the initial impact, Eastwood miraculously swam back to shore after being thrown off his life raft, in rough shark infested water. He was 21 years old.
kJka7 TIL that there is a genetic mutation which vastly reduces armpit odor. A mutation disabling the “ABCC11” gene changes the chemical structure of armpit sweat, inhibiting the action of skin bacteria. Notably, this mutation is mostly found in East Asian populations
N7rA1 TIL that the fictional town of Bikini Bottom from the show SpongeBob Square Pants is shown in the series to be underneath a real place called Bikini Atoll; a former nuclear test site that is still uninhabitable today.
jxBM TIL Lincoln suffered from chronic depression: “He often wept in public and recited maudlin poetry. He told jokes and stories at odd times—he needed the laughs, he said, for his survival. As a young man he talked of suicide.”