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TIL about the "Chicken Tax"

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kxMW TIL that if you took the entire US Debt and converted it to pennies and stacked them all on top of each other, it’d be so long that it’d take light just under 2.5 hours to traverse the distance
R7wZ8 TIL in 1567, the man with the world’s longest-ever beard broke his neck and died after tripping over it.
PYaWw TIL that Surveyors have found that the clock tower at the Palace of Westminster( BIG BEN ) has developed a tilt. Experts says even though the tilt is visible to the naked eye, at its current speed, it would take some 4,000 years to reach the angle of the Leaning Tower of PISA.
5YyQk TIL Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally supposed to play the role of The Predator and some footage of him in the suit exist
jeOa TIL that there is such a thing as a ‘Trauma Handshake’ a procedure in which two fingers are inserted into the rectum in order to make sure that your brain still has control over your anal sphincter.