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TIL a chicken once lived for 18 months without a head

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JEZ4 TIL During the 1970 Aspen’s sheriff’s election, Hunter S. Thompson shaved his head bald so he could refer to the crew-cut, ex-army, Republican incumbent as “My long-haired opponent.”
MV90 TIL every December 25th a town in Peru celebrates “Takanakuy”. Men, women, and children settle grudges with fistfights. Then everyone goes drinking together, ready to start the new year with a clean slate.
P1JbV TIL that UK libraries offer free digital access to nearly all newspapers, magazines, audiobooks and eBooks.
l7JrN TIL that in 2004 Alicia Esteve Head, under the alias Tania Head, pretended to be a 9/11 survivor, created an online support group and ultimately was named President of the World Trade Center Survivors' Network before being discovered as a fraud in 2007 by The New York Times.
yVMka TIL that the creator of Wonder Woman was in a polyamorous relationship and based her Lasso of Truth on his belief in BDSM and “loving submission."