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TIL: KFC use to have a spin-off restaurant called “Kentucky Roast Beef”. (This one was in Bellevue, WA.)

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Op77 TIL In London during the 1930s, infants were commonly hung outside apartment windows in “Baby Cages” so that they could get enough fresh air and sunlight.
bXMQ TIL one of Britain’s most prolific serial rapist, John Worboys, who is believed to have drugged and raped over a 100 people, was sentenced to only 8 years in prison.
J1BjB TIL Having a light underside and a darker top is a form of camouflage known as countershading. Animals with reverse countershading, like the honey badger, stand out more as a warning that they can defend themselves.
6ERlW TIL: In New Zealand there is a Hill named Taumatawhakatangi­hangakoauauotamatea­turipukakapikimaunga­horonukupokaiwhen­uakitanatahu (85 letters), which holds the records for the longest named place in the World.
YyJA TIL The sun will never set on the present-day British Empire, due to the smallest and most isolated of the 14 territories, the Pitcairn Islands, which only has a population of a few dozen people. Until there is an eclipse there, Britain remains the empire on which the sun never sets.