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TIL that in Texas, it is legal to kill Bigfoot if you ever find it.

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vP8MB TIL that there are several breeds of Chicken called Naked Neck, identified by complete lack of most plumage on the neck and head
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YpPrG TIL that modern genetics was discovered/invented in 1856-63 by an Austrian monk who overturned millennia of misunderstanding by simply running a scientific experiment (on 28,000 plants); yet his work was ignored for 40 years and nearly lost.
1drW There was a badass military leader Jan Žižka, who never lost a fight and whose army, consisting of 12,000 peasants and farmers, defeated the armies of Holy Roman Empire and Hungary who numbered some 100,000 men.
8RNG TIL British police cars are issued with a teddy bear as standard, so as to console children involved in accidents.