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TIL there are no regulations on what side the fuel tank door is on cars, it’s simply chosen by how the car is put together.

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klYB TIL before starting Wendy’s, Dave Thomas worked under Colonel Sanders at KFC and even invented their widely used KFC chicken bucket
X0Gbk TIL that in 1925, the major light bulb manufacturers of the world formed the Phoebus Cartel with the intent to lower bulb hours and raise prices
694lm TIL senior cats can develop cognitive dysfunction syndrome (CDS). CDS is often referred to as cat or feline dementia.
JYZxV TIL that not only did Robert Todd Lincoln watch his father die, but he also saw the assassinations of Garfield and McKinley. When Roosevelt took office, Lincoln wrote “I do not congratulate you, for I have seen too much of the seamy side of the Presidential Robe to think it an enviable garment".
WknYN TIL During WW II the US Army was aware that mail to soldiers was critical for morale, but overwhelmed with the volume and space it took to ship. So the resuscitated a British/Eastman Kodak method where every letter was photographed, and the film was shipped, then printed. It was called V Mail.