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8K48 TIL that the movie White Chicks was nominated for five Razzies, including the Worst Picture, Worst Actress, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay and Worst Screen Couple. Film critic Richard Roeper even put the film as the #1 worst film of 2004.
eYRL TIL that China has drastically reduced its poverty within the last decade, with the poverty rate dropping from 26% in 2007 to only 4% in 2014
nwdG TIL that paleontologists estimate the size of a tyrannosaurus rex penis to have been around 12 feet long.
M4YK TIL that the name of the Japanese dish Oyakodon, translates to parents and children in a bowl. The dish consists of chicken and egg over rice.
dD579 TIL the homochirality of biological molecules is exclusively a feature of life on Earth. Extraterrestrial samples contain largely racemic compounds, and common organic syntheses always yield racemic mixtures. It is not known to science why that is the case.