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TIL before starting Wendy’s, Dave Thomas worked under Colonel Sanders at KFC and even invented their widely used KFC chicken bucket

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N79r8 TIL Ford developed a nuclear-powered, steam-driven concept car in 1957
Z8vvv TIL: The common phrase for the worst betrayal, "Sold Down The River," originates from the experience of slaves who were torn from family and friends, literally sold and sent south on the Mississippi to a fate worse than imaginable picking cotton.
bNrN TIL an Irish woman was denied for a teaching job in South Korea, citing the “alcoholism nature” of Irish people as reason for rejection.
6E96X You’re in luck. For their senior project, two Cornell University computer-engineering whizzes recently built a machine that does just that. After learning in class how breathalyzers work, Robert Clain and Miguel Salas assembled a fart detector from a sensitive hydrogen sulfide monitor, a thermometer and a microphone and wrote the software that would rate the emission. A “slight perturbance in the air” near the detector sets it to work measuring the three pillars of fart quality: stench, temperature and sound. Temperature, Clain explains, is critical.
l78EV TIL about Archie Karas, a Greek gambler who turned $50 into $40 million in 3 years playing poker in Las Vegas before losing it all