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TIL that a rooster in Basel, Switzerland was sentenced to burn at the stake for committing the “heinous and unnatural crime of laying an egg”.

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0JMv TIL that a German historian believes that the years 614-911 AD didn’t happen and we are actually living in the year 1716.
WjJY TIL French film star Brigitte Bardot has been prosecuted 5 times in France for criticizing Islam
QNKQL TIL that the de Bothezat helicopter was a quadcopter that first flew in 1922 and Thomas Edison called it the first successful helicopter.
DQAOp TIL A 1965 study on social isolation in monkeys reported that while no monkeys died during the isolation, 1 of 6 monkeys isolated for 3 months refused to eat after release and died 5 days later. A 2nd animal refused to eat and would have died had they not resorted to forced feeding.
9dAp TIL During the 2001 Presidential Clinton-Bush transition, 62 new White House staff discovered the W key missing from their keyboards