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TIL KFC had to pay the real Colonel Sanders $1 Million to stop publicly hating on their chicken

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OGJ7g TIL The oldest person in the USA was born in 1909, she lives with her 94-year old daughter and is cared for by her 68-year old granddaughter.
gMaXL TIL It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 billion.
Y7paA TIL the last independent ancient Greek state was in India
Z8jOp TIL that while young Robert E. Lee worked surveying the boundary between Ohio and Michigan, he jokingly referred in a letter to a snake he killed in a lighthouse as the lighthouse's keeper. Lee's biographer Douglas Southall Freeman misinterpreted this as an admission that Lee killed a human keeper.
OoDAY TIL that a man in Japan in 1933 jumped into a volcano crater to end his life. Over the next two years hundreds would also jump before a barrier was erected to prevent people from jumping.