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TIL that almost all chicken meat is female.

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J1b48 TIL in 2012 as a man was cleaning out his great-aunt's home after she died, he found 345 well-preserved comic books in a closet, including Detective Comics No. 27 (first appearance of Batman), Action Comics No. 1 (first appearance of Superman) & Batman No. 1. In total. the collection sold for $3.5m.
4XVnJ TIL that the "Wa" in Wario and Waluigi isn't an upturned M, it's actually a portmanteau of Mario and Luigi's name and the Japanese adjective warui which means "bad", literally translating to "bad Mario" or "bad Luigi".
6EkvZ TIL London Taxi drivers have to memorize ~25,000 streets (called "the Knowledge") in order to get licensed. A 2000 study found that they have larger hippocampi, a part of the brain associated with learning and memory.
0wEbM TIL Rabbits can smell their dead relatives in the feces of predators
8ePB8 TIL Sharon Stone did not know about the famous up-skirt shot in 'Basic Instinct' until she saw it at a screening. It was later used against her in a custody ruling.