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TIL There are roughly 200 chickens for every person in Delaware.

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Qao9 TIL left-spiraling snails are generally as rare as left handed humans, especially because left and right spiraled snails can’t mate together easily, but in Japan snakes gobble up righties easily but can’t bite into the lefties, so there are way more lefties.
b9aka TIL that Cherokee called the town of Nowata, Oklahoma "Amadikanigvnagvna", meaning "the water is all gone from here", i.e. "no water."
neKyd TIL in WW2 the U.S military initially recommended adding armor to areas of aircraft with the most bullet holes. However due to survivorship bias - where people or things that do not make it past a selection process are not factored into a decision - those were places that already had enough armor.
Q1ap TIL a pricing dispute over bamboo poles led to a war that killed 21 million people
W798B TIL people rip bongs at the office