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TIL that almost all chicken meat is female.

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1aZ18 TIL about Joseph C. Rowell, who in 1894, established interlibrary loan (ILL) in the US. With ILL, you can go to your library and request and borrow (almost) any resource available for public circulation that is held in ANY library in the US, for little or no cost.
wLyLo TIL Flatworms Lose Their Heads but Not Their Memories
D1jvV TIL of Katya the Bear who was a brown bear native to Kazakhstan who was imprisoned in 2004 after being found guilty of mauling two people. Katya was held in an adult prison. The bear was released from imprisonment and allowed to congregate with other bears after serving a fifteen-year sentence.
LLrZ TIL: Wisconsin has several “Seed Libraries” where people can “check out” seeds to grow and then “return” them after harvest.
R79e7 TIL Entry-level animators earn around 200¥ per drawing — less than $2, with a single drawing that can take more than an hour. Work conditions are grim, an animator’s suicide was classified a work related incident after investigators found he had worked over 600 hrs in the month leading to his death.