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TIL that when trying to expand into the China in the late 1980s, KFC mistakenly mistranslated their famous “It’s Finger Lickin’ Good” slogan to “Eat Your Fingers Off”

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QYxa TIL Ulysses S. Grant’s real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. A congressman who nominated Grant for attendance at Westpoint wrote down the wrong name and it just stuck.
mxDdR TIL Joy Milne (The Lady Who Can Smell Parkinson’s) has a story of how she discovered her ability which differs from the ‘dumb luck’/‘off-chance’ version first reported years ago
e0kJL TIL that in 1905 the Welsh rugby team responded to the traditional New Zealand pre-match haka by singing. Within seconds the 40,000 capacity crowd joined the players in song. The tradition of singing anthems before international fixtures had been invented.
aZXb TIL that 101 years ago, an elephant named Mary, was hung from a crane because she killed her insensitive handler. It was learned after her death she had an abscess in her jaw which her handler kept hitting.
jNV5M TIL a Harvard study found that hiring one highly productive ‘toxic worker’ does more damage to a company’s bottom line than employing several less productive, but more cooperative, workers.