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TIL Colonel Sanders was not seen wearing anything other than his white suit for the later part of his life.

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b6eP4 TIL the ‘Tetris’ Theme is based on a Russian Folk Song about two peasants falling in love.
8a9jK TIL Julia Louis-Dreyfus once parked in Tom Arnold's parking spot on the CBS lot. He left a note on her windshield that read "How stupid are you? Move your f--king car, you asshole!" She later found "a Polaroid of someone's buttocks left on her windshield and the word 'cunt' written in soap."
xVX8o TIL Tolkien wrote letters with illustrations to his kids for Christmas, every year until his youngest was 14 years old.
Ypmy7 TIL In a similar way to "shoot" and "darn" being inoffensive substitutes for harsh swear words, the Australian exclamation "Crikey," made world famous by Steve Irwin, is shorthand for "Christ kill me"
QJ79p TIL between 1929 and 1932 Ford went from selling 1,507,132 cars in a year to selling just 210,824 of them.