Apparently a lot of Americans have dreamed of smelling like freshly fried chicken while basking in the sun. When fast-food chain KFC launched a fried chicken-scented sunscreen giveaway online Monday to promote its extra-crispy fried chicken, the 3,000 bottles of SPF 30 that were up for grabs were gone in a mere two hours:
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