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TIL that 3% of all movies in the 1960s featureed quicksand

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vnDx TIL that the longest unbroken alliance in world history is between England and Portugal; it has been going for 631 years and still stands today.
8abJb TIL Following the buyout of K.F.C in 1971, Colonel Sanders disliked their food so much that he developed plans to franchise “The Colonel’s Lady’s Dinner House” restaurant (which he opened with his wife in Kentucky, in 1968) as a competitor. Followed by Sanders suing the new owners for $122 million.
6EN4J TIL that Singapore was expelled from Malaysia, making it one of the few times in history when a country has voluntarily divested itself of part of its own territory
XmQX TIL that a Teenager Without a Vagina, Realized it When She Turned 17: Teenager can’t have sex or babies due to rare condition that left her without reproductive organs
OoWga TIL of Cottle County, Texas. A rural northern Texas county that voted for the Democrat in every presidential election between 1912 and 1996, except once in 1928.