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TIL the only country with no live chickens is Vatican City

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XrdX TIL there is a company in Minnesota that specializes in lying for you - false work references and fake verification of alibis for SO’s for $60 each
Ypdwx TIL The average number of stars we can see with the naked eye is around 10000. This number is only the 0.000004% of all stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
v10E8 TIL Greenwich Mean Time is mean because Noon GMT is the annual average moment of the moment the Sun crosses the Greenwich meridian and reaches its highest point in the sky there. It is rarely the exact moment, and may occur up to 16 minutes before or after noon GMT.
9wrjX TIL While widely regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time, Lauryn Hill has only released 1 single solo album during her entire career, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
awVK0 TIL that a frog was the mainstream pregnancy test in the 1950s. If a woman’s urine injected into the frog caused it to lay eggs, then the woman was pregnant.