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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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Ljg9 TIL Pfizer spent 2.8 billion developing an Inhaler an as Insulin shot alternative for diabetics only to discontinue it because people thought it was too large carry around in pockets and fickle doctors wouldn’t prescribe it
E1AV TIL that Alexander Graham Bell invented the metal detector in order to find an assassin’s bullet in President James Garfield’s body, but was unsuccessful because the president was lying on a steel spring bed.
LkXld TIL of Ruthie Tompson, one of the original animators for Disney's Snow White, is still alive at age 107. She's the seventh oldest person in the world.
ANA8w TIL that West Point's class of 1915 is referred to as "the class the stars fell on", due to the fact that 59 of its graduates would later become general officers. These included two eventual five-star generals: Dwight D. Eisenhower, later also 34th President of the United States, and Omar Bradley
rNDe TIL that in 1994 there was a mass genocide where over 1,000,000 people were murdered in 100 days and the worlds leaders knew and did nothing.