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TIL every Google Maps street view of a KFC blurs the face of Colonel Sanders due to Google’s security policy that every human’s face gets blurred.

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GR5N TIL Ray Bradbury believed we all wound up creating the dystopian future of Fahrenheit 451 anyway. “Stop talking on the telephone, stop talking on the stupid Internet. It’s a waste of time.”
Egvw TIL the Catholic Church owns a media company that publishes pornography and erotica
BgrVx TIL in 1963, a leaking propane tank was ignited by a nearby popcorn machine at a "holiday on ice" show in Indianapolis. The explosion killed 74 people and ripped open a section of the seating bowl.
oBBaY Short answer: You’re less distracted by your native tongue.
GMvN TIL Listerine was sold as a cure for gonorrhea in the 19th century. But it wasn’t a success until the 1920s, when it was pitched as a solution for bad breath. Listerine’s ads featured women turned off by their mate’s bad breath. Until that time, bad breath was not considered such a catastrophe.