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TIL Yuba City, CA had a population of wild chickens. I encountered some of them today.

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jNXNN TIL That the director of The Shawshank Redemption bought the script from Stephen King for just $5,000 and could have sold it for $3 million after working on it for just 8 weeks to turn it into a movie script. Even though he was a first-time director, he refused and directed the movie himself.
8e7vZ TIL the ahead of the U.S. invasion of Grenada 40 years ago, the Pentagon "knew so little about the country, it had to plan the invasion using maps normally sold to tourists."
16ww7 TIL that when pop group The Association released their single "Cherish" in 1966, it was 3:15, when at the time radio stations wouldn't play songs over three minutes. The producer listed it as 3:00 anyway, and it went on to become a #1 hit
8DRK TIL Americans look at mouths for emotional cues while Japanese look to the eyes, which explains why USA smileys look like :) and Japanese smileys look like (^_^)