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TIL Dave Thomas (Wendy’s) worked with Colonel Sanders (KFC) to adopt certain trademarks, including the bucket and sign. Then with the money he made, founded Wendy’s.

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XEWN6 TIL that only 2 foreigners reached the rebel army's highest rank "comandante" during the Cuban revolution. One of them was Che Guevara. The other was a American soldier named William A. Morgan. He joined the revolution in 1957, claiming to seek revenge for a friend who was killed by Batista's regime
9ZQD TIL That if an atom was the size of our Solar System, then a neutrino to scale would be the size of a golf ball.
RM46 TIL that one of the most popular radio acts of the 1930s was a ventriloquist, a fact which baffled contemporary critics.
7j4P TIL of Deep Thunder, a weather prediction system created by IBM and processed by Watson. Deep Thunder can accurately predict weather down to a .2 mile (one city block) radius using data it collects from smartphone barometers.
p86yp TIL that most doctors don't swear a hippocratic oath and if they do it doesn't say anything about profiting from unnecessary treatment or taking care of all patients regardless of ability to pay or suspicion of criminality.