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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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l7LmK TIL that a third of the cast and crew of the 1956 film The Conqueror, including John Wayne and director Dick Powell, developed cancer—likely due to filming near a nuclear test site.
b99mp TIL that since 1405 until the present day without interruption, the city of Lausanne (Switzerland) has maintained a lookout in the Cathedral bell tower. The lookout announces the time by yelling the hour from 10 pm to 2 am, 365 days a year. The lookout cries the hour to each cardinal direction
xl67 TIL that in 1310, a Mali ruler called Abu Bakr II tried to cross the Atlantic Ocean with 400 ships. Only 1 ship who refused to follow him made it back
v1k7D TIL generic SNES space shooter “Phalanx” had an old man playing a banjo on the cover, not for any relation to the game itself, but purely as a marketing technique to differentiate itself in the crowded space shooter market. “Banjo man” does not appear in the game at any point.
gJVW TIL of the Basque language: It isn’t in any language family and is completely distinct from any other language in the world