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TIL the first KFC restaurant was actually in Utah and was named that way because the sign painter thought "Kentucky Fried Chicken" sounded more exotic. Colonel Sanders did invent and his famous chicken in Kentucky though.

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kOW9m TIL that since Mount Rushmore is carved out of solid granite, which erodes 1 inch every 10,000 years, the basic shape of the faces will last up to 7 million years (though their noses will only last 2 million)
pYBpA TIL the phone number of the very first house to have a residential phone line installed was "1."
mK9Y TIL: That until a couple of years ago homebrewing wasn’t officially legal in all 50 United States.
QJGOE TIL that for months, scientists in France could not figure out why seagulls they were tracking were traveling far inland, away from their breeding colony. Eventually, they traced the seagulls' path and discovered they were visiting a chip factory.
7rwg7 TIL about Diego the tortoise who "had so much sex he saved his species". Named after the San Diego Zoo he belongs to a critically endangered species( just 15 tortoises left alive in 1976 ). After a successful breeding program he ended up fathering around 900 offspring.