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TIL that after selling KFC, Colonel Sanders started a new restaurant in his wife's name using the same recipe's, was sued by KFC's parent company, and actually settled out of court decisively in the Colonel's favor.

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M7wam TIL that during the Han Dynasty, Chinese aristocrats would be buried in full-body jade burial suits. Each suit consisted of thousands of little blocks of jade tied together with gold thread.
R7Eyw TIL in 1879 it was estimated the Oxford English Dictionary to take 10 years for completion, but in five years they'd only reached the word "Ant". After crowdsourcing readers to help it was completed 44 years later. The publishers now estimate it would take a single person 120 years to just type it.
JMw1 TIL that ‘Vanilla’ comes from the latin word 'Vagina’ due to the way the way the pod must be split open to expose the seeds (#3)
epPab TIL about “immature” eggs, otherwise known as unlaid eggs, several of which can be obtained from a single slaughtered egg-laying hen. They can be very small to large in size, and those close to being laid have a soft, semi-formed shell around them.
Ll0m TIL Vladimir Putin is a black belt in Judo and produced an instructional video called “Lets Learn Judo with Vladimir Putin” in 2008.