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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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EPGp TIL In an order to break a price barrier, indian engineers has come up with the world’s cheapest phablet ($20), which is as powerful as the original iPad but also has slots for USB and MicroSD devices, a camera, and twice the memory.
MeM80 TIL Norwegian police banned a team of Finnish divers from a cave in 2014 after 2 people died. In secret, the divers pulled their 2 dead friends to the surface & fulfilled a promise to a widow of one man. The illegal rescue took 27 divers & 101 hrs in frigid water, using about 1-ton of equip.
XEpjQ TIL Sweden was the first to find out about the censored Chernobyl accident when one of the workers at the Forsmark power plant set off evacuation alarms when he had walked through grass that had been contaminated from radioactive rain picked up from Chernobyl over 800 miles away.
kJGpd TIL Known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, in 1930 the United States enacted heavy tariffs that ultimately failed to achieve their intended outcome. Some economists attributed that action as leading to the Great Depression.
wLWG6 TIL of 6 suspected non-hijacked pilot suicides on commercial airlines: Japan Air Lines in 1982 (24 dead), SilkAir in 1997 (104 dead), EgyptAir in 1999 (217 dead), LAM Mozambique Airlines in 2013 (33 dead), Malaysia Airlines in 2014 (289 dead, plane not found), and Germanwings in 2015 (150 dead).