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TIL that Ireland is the only country in the world where you can be served fried chicken prepared with Colonel Sander's original KFC recipe

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lopyK TIL that python 3 rounds 16.5 to 16 which is mathematical rounding. This feels quite counterintuitive when you have learned bankers rounding early in school. Bankers rounding is apperently biased towards the bigger number so mathematical rounding makes more sense for greater amounts of data.
WkvKY TIL that after Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was killed, his body was publicly displayed in a shopping mall freezer. People came from all over Libya to see it.
Pg6V TIL during World War 2 the Japanese government had a national policy to receive Jewish refugees. Even Hideki Tojo rejected Nazi protests to this policy.
69LGm TIL Of the Italian-American Civil Rights League, a group with the stated goal of combatimg negative stereotypes, was actually a PR group run by the Mafia to improve their image. They even negotiated to change the script of "The Godfather"
EOdp TIL David Copperfield and two assistants were robbed at gunpoint in 2006. The renowned magician was able to employ sleight of hand to conceal his possessions when the thieves turned to him. He was quoted as calling his spontaneous illusion “…reverse pickpocketing.”