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TIL KFC sent a painting to a guy of himself riding the Colonel piggyback while holding a drumstick for figuring out why they only follow the Spice Girls and 6 guys named Herb on Twitter

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6ZAl TIL in 1908 the Russian Olympic team arrived at the Olympics in London 12 days late because it was still using the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar
8QKV TIL that if Earth’s entire history was viewed as a 24 hour period, humans would only represent 1 minute and 17 seconds.
eppvD TIL Actor Christopher Lee, who famously portrayed Saruman, was also featured on the cover of Paul McCartney and Wings 1973 album "Band on the Run"
PYonJ TIL that after the Nazi assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbart Dollfuss. Fascist Italian dictator Mussolini mobilized the Italian army on the Austrian border and threatened Hitler with open war if German troops crossed into Austria.
looga TIL in 1966 Elliot See and Charles Basset, two Project Gemini Astronauts, died by crashing their T-38 jet into the building that housed the very spacecraft they were to have flown into orbit.