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TIL Dave Thomas shaped KFC as we know it

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4p7N TIL During the Normandy Allied Invasion, a Scottish Piper played his bagpipes walking upright while the carnage erupted. He later asked captured German prisoners why they hadn’t shot him. They said they thought he was crazy.
PYn9V TIL In 1942, the Nazis cracked the algorithm for the serial numbers and rag content of British Pound notes. Using prisoners with counterfeiting skills, near perfect bills were produced with the plan to scatter them over England by air to induce hyperinflation and collapse the economy.
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1r14 TIL That When A Director Directs A Pilot TV Show, They Earn Royalties For Every Episode Aired There After Even If They Have No Further Involvement With The Show