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TIL In 1966 Lee Cummings, the nephew of KFC founder Colonel Harland Sanders, started his own chain of chicken restaurants in Ohio after developing his own chicken recipe. As of today Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken has 131 locations.

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X09Y8 TIL that Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokémon, loved to collect bugs as a child. Other children would call him “Mr. Bug,” and as a child he wanted to become an entomologist. This childhood pastime went on to inspire aspects of Pokémon.
awOdb TIL there is an ethnic group called the Karen people or Karens. About 7 million of them live in Myanmar, and about 8500 in Minnesota.
G8AE TIL a billionaire hedge fund manager spent $50million investigating HERBALIFE and exposing it as pyramid scheme in a public presentation. HERBALIFE share price shot up 25% as a result.
grrwA TIL Dean Martin was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon in 1982. Martin told reporters he had carried a .38 in his boot for years after several incidents involving strangers coming up to him at restaurants that Martin had considered "life threatening."
nAOr TIL the Earth has a second moon called 2016 Ho3. Essentially a large asteroid, it orbits the Earth non elliptically but has the most stable orbit of Earths “ other moons”.