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TIL there’s a Deaf KFC in Pakistan, India and Egypt made for and handled by deaf people.

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JY01l TIL cats cannot taste sugar.
j6YlM TIL After retiring in 2003, one of the co-founders of Nvidia, Curtis Priem, sold off all his shares by 2006. Had he kept them, they'd be worth an estimated $70 billion+ today
7rYeO TIL A Tribe Called Quest hasn’t made a penny off of “Can I Kick It?” Lou Reed took 100% of all royalties and publishing because the song sampled the bass line from his hit “Walk on the Wild Side.”
1yQd TIL that after watching the movie ‘Lincoln’ (2009) , a neurobiologist did some extra research and found out that the state of Mississippi had never officially banned slavery. The state then ratified the 13th amendment (which bans slavery) in 2013, 148 years after Abe Lincoln first introduced it.
b4ea TIL Coke countered Crystal Pepsi with Tab Clear. The idea was that Tab was perceived as an inferior, boring diet type drink, and equating it as competition with Crystal Pepsi would damage its image. Coke succeeded and both products were dead within five months