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National Fried Chicken Day- Chicken Facts

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It's time for "Yes or B.S."  We give you a statement, and you decide YES, it's true . . . or NO, it's total B.S.  It's National Fried Chicken Day, so that's the topic . . .

1.  Colonel Sanders' first name was Harland.Yes:  Harland David Sanders.  He died in 1980 at age 90.  And no, he wasn't really a colonel.


2.  Fried chicken was invented in America.B.S.  The first country to deep fry chicken was Scotland.

3.  The first Kentucky Fried Chicken was in Utah.Yes:  The first KFC opened in Utah in 1952.  Colonel Sanders was from Kentucky.  Before KFC, he had a fried chicken joint there called the Harland Sanders Café.

4.  There are more chickens on the planet than people.Yes:  Roughly 23 billion chickens at any given time, compared to 7.8 billion people.

5.  Popeyes Chicken was named after Popeye the Sailor Man.B.S.  It was named after Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, Gene Hackman's character in the movie "The French Connection".