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TIL French KFC does not sell gravy!

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GYmpJ TIL many people supported countries boycotting the 2008 Olympics over China's human rights abuses in Tibet, but such boycotts never ended up happening
mNVp TIL police in Germany hunted a sinister phantom killer for two years after finding the same DNA at 39 different crime scenes - only to discover that the source was a woman who made the cotton buds used to collect the sample!
KOe9Q TIL of 'Taxus voor hoop', a Dutch initiative to collect pruning leftovers of Yew trees/bushes from gardens to produce cancer treatment drugs
69QmZ TIL that in the early 20th century, doctors used to prescribe cigarettes to patients as a treatment for a variety of ailments, including asthma, anxiety, and even sore throats. It wasn't until the 1960s that the link between smoking and lung cancer became widely known.
kOBrB TIL of Joan Risch, Housewife who disappeared in 1960's from her blood-smeared house, leaving her children behind ; had checked out multiple books on disappearances from the local library before vanishing.