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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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1a5Qd TIL that Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, President and General of the Mexican Army that won the battle of the Alamo, introduced the United States to chewing gum when he returned years later as a businessman.
awmVA TIL that Cambodia is the only country in the world to have a real building on its flag. Angkor Wat, a Hindu-Budist temple, has become a symbol of Cambodia, which appears on its national flag, and it is the country's prime attraction for visitors.
5YPQ9 TIL that some 430,000 years ago, high in the Atapuerca Mountains of northern Spain, a lethal assault was committed. The victim, a young adult Neanderthal, received two blows to the head, just above the left eye.
bd04 TIL Years later, when asked why Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg failed, Pickett reportedly replied: “I’ve always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.”
ADXJo TIL charges were dropped on an Australian man for displaying the word "C*NT" on a public billboard because judges ruled the word as 'commonplace vernacular that is not deemed offensive' in Australia.