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TIL KFC's founder Colonel Sanders would pay unexpected visits to K.F.C. franchises in order to inspect them, and would often swear and bang his cane on whatever furniture was available if the gravy was't tasty enough.

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78Eep TIL in the final years of his life, Harry Houdini spent substantial time and energy targeting 'spiritualists' who claimed they could read minds or communicate with the dead. Houdini saw this as an unethical branch of his profession that manipulated people vulnerable with grief.
woPoo TIL that, on August 27, 1853, Abraham Lincoln led a ceremony by the railroad tracks in Lincoln, Illinois to mark the founding of the new town named after him. Lincoln "christened" the railroad trackside with watermelon juice.
yQg7l TIL of the Cocoanut Grove fire, a deadly nightclub fire in 1940's Boston that led to laws requiring clearly lit exit signs and outward-swinging exit doors; it also saw the introduction of the now-widely used Lund and Browder chart, which estimates burn sizes on burn victims.
9REG TIL Australia is moving so fast that they plan to adopt a moving GPS system by 2020 to compensate for the changes
XEB6D TIL that former US President Richard Nixon was on the cover of Time magazine 55 times, the most of any individual.