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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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mxQQM TIL Al Goldstein an American pornographer, In 1989, ran a full page ad in "Screw" offering $1 million for the assassination of the Ayatollah Khomeini, in response to Khomeini's fatwa against novelist Salman Rushdie for allegedly blaspheming Islam.
6DLQ TIL in 2001 Mattel sold a Harry Potter Nimbus 2000 flying broom that vibrated when kids rode it. They pulled it from stores after adult stores began selling the toy.
XEbOE TIL that my favorite time of day actually has a name and begins when the geometric center of the sun is 6° below the horizon and lasts until the sunrise.
X0DlE TIL 1960s Futurists Predicted a Shorter Work Week and a Senate Commitee thought by the year 2000 that we would be down to 14 hours a week for a full work week, and they used the show "The Jetsons", to showcase this
4XArR TIL about Guy Gabaldon, a half Mexican US marine who convinced around 1300 Japanese soldiers and civilians to surrender on his own, by going into enemy territory without weapons during the battle of Saipan in 1944