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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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16w5W TIL that Nike’s famous “Just Do It” slogan was inspired by murderer Gary Gilmore’s last words, moments before he was executed by a firing squad in 1977.
18mD TIL a Canadian female astronaut was sexually assaulted by a cosmonaut on a training mission. She reached out to the CSA and was told, “That kind of behavior is normal for Russians, and it would be too taboo to complain publicly.”
x6MGB TIL U.S. pennies made before 1982 are 95% copper, but starting in 1982, the Mint switched to 97.5% zinc with a thin copper coating due to copper’s rising cost. Both types were made in 1982. Copper pennies weigh 3.11g, zinc ones 2.5g.
nWENP TIL, the Houston home of astronaut Neil Armstrong burned down in 1964 and his family was led to safety by Armstrong and fellow astronaut Ed White. White would later be killed when he and two crewmates became trapped in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft in 1967.
x6EAo TIL that fabric from the original 1903 Wright Flyer has orbited the Earth, landed on the Moon, and flown on Mars.