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TIL Colonel Sanders wounded a business rival in a deadly shootout in the 1920's. The future fast-food giant shot a Standard Oil gas station owner for painting over one of his billboards. All charges were dropped.

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nebK9 TIL in 1961, Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara wrote a book called “Guerrilla Warfare”, which explained different tactics for waging guerrilla warfare in different countries. Bolivian counter-insurgency forces also studied this book, which eventually led to Guevara’s capture and execution in 1967.
m1MnR TIL that "masking" in autism requires so much mental energy that many autistic people experience burnout from constantly suppressing their natural behaviors to appear neurotypical
M7eLa TIL Harvard sentences are 720 sample sentences, in sets of 10, which are phonetically balanced and used for testing phone and voice-to-text systems.
yQJ0X TIL The Killer Lake, Lake Nyos, suddenly killed people and livestock due to the release of immense amount of carbon dioxide.
Ejrp TIL of Prader WIlli syndrome which leads to a feeling of constant insatiable hunger 24x7 throughout the patient’s life