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TIL Kentucky Fried Chicken ran a marketing campaign that included Colonel Sanders harlequin-style erotica books for Mother’s Day

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ldRG TIL that Foxconn, the iPhone manufacturer, has reduced its employees from 110,000 to 50,000, thanks to the introduction of robots.
QBG9 TIL firing squads issue a blank cartridge to either all-but-one, or one-but-not-all, of the members. No member of the squad is told beforehand if he is using live ammunition. This is called the “conscience round” which allows each member to believe they did not personally fire the fatal shot.
68Zl TIL that Shanghai’s population is 24 million, more than the entire population of Australia, packed into a city half the size of Sydney.
66el TIL If an atom were as big as the Solar System, a neutrino would as small as a golf ball.
NXaJ TIL that the first European to describe the circulatory system was burned at the stake for heresy with his own books as the fuel.