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TIL that Humanity eats 70 Billion Chickens each year

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7BQp TIL In the 60’s, the U.S. Department of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff wanted to kill innocent American citizens in order to frame Cuba, but JFK stopped it.
QJny9 TIL the Norman invasion created a two-tiered language that evolved into modern English. The aristocrats spoke French, lived in "mansions" and ate "beef" and "pork", while Anglo-Saxons lived in "houses" and raised "cows" and "pigs". Also Old English words for poop, butt and sex became vulgar words.
9wMj7 TIL The Dominican Republic launched a genocide of Haitians living on the two country's frontiers. They identified Haitians from their own populace by making suspects pronounce "parsley," or "perejil" in Spanish. If they could not do this, they were deemed Haitian and murdered.
9Y90Q TIL a memorial plaque to rapper Tupac Shakur was added to a bench in the sleepy coastal town of Lancing in the UK. Locals Neil Whitemore and Graham Staines justified the decision by stating “It’s brought people together, like the hip-hop community and the people who like benches”.
16AY8 TIL Al Matthews, who starred as Sergeant Apone in James Cameron’s ‘Aliens,’ was the inspiration for Sergeant Avery Johnson of the Halo video games