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TIL that there is a chicken breed which is entirely black from beak to bone and even its meat!

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reZe TIL the sun and moon appear to be the same size in the sky because of an astonishing coincidence: the moon is 400 times smaller but 400 times closer.
neE1B TIL as a kid in DC, Duke Ellington loved to play baseball. Sometimes Teddy Roosevelt, who was President at the time, would ride by on his horse and stop to watch Duke & his friends play.
68mw TIL that before the Apollo mission, Armstrong and the astronauts couldn’t afford life insurance. So Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins signed hundreds of pieces of memorabilia that could be sold by their families in case of death
o60E TIL Architect Christopher Alexander advocates building street cafes in each neighborhood. “Encourage local cafes to spring up in each neighborhood. Make them intimate places, with several rooms, open to a busy path, where people can sit with coffee or a drink and watch the world go by.”
X0pD6 TIL Tetris can be used to reduce PTSD symptoms