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TIL that ‘never’ is a contraction of 'not ever’

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8a444 TIL Chickens will sometimes eat their eggs and develop a taste for them. Sometimes, this can be caused by a calcium deficiency in their diet but other times, they just develop a taste for the rich food source and have to be culled or they can teach this to the other hens.
Lrmr TIL Samuel L. Jackson started using the word “motherfucker” to overcome his lifelong stuttering problem
PYbpE TIL that Roald Dahl, while stationed in America in World War 2, slept with countless high society women while gathering intelligence. According to one socialite friend, Dahl had a “whole stable” of women, and “he slept with everybody on the east and west coasts that had more than $50,000 a year."
4xBg TIL that the Great Stork Derby was a contest held in Toronto from 1926-1936, in which women competed to produce the most babies in order to win $750K as stipulated in the will of a wealthy lawyer. The prize ended up being split among four women who each had 9 babies.
EOJx TIL that the fingerprints of koalas are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be easily confused at a crime scene.