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TIL that 49% of total revenue earned by KFC is made in China

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EkYo TIL Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” reached only #41 on the U.S. pop chart, and was not even released as a single in the UK because it “lacked a strong hook”
6Ev0X TIL that humans have gone to space every year since 1961
6ZNm TIL: IMAX projectionists wear body armor when handling IMAX lamps; if dropped, they can explode resulting in quartz shrapnel.
j69yn TIL that NASA engineers created a set of beauty products because they thought astronauts might want to wear makeup during their space missions
16ZNX TIL that the Invisible rail (Habroptila wallacii) is native to to the island of Halmahera, Indonesia. It is not actually invisble, just difficult to spot.