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

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b6eX0 TIL In his last will and testament (25 March 1616), William Shakespeare left his second-best bed to his wife, Anne Hathaway.
pgbe TIL in Japan, Ronald McDonald is called Donald McDonald because of the language’s lack of an “r” sound.
Z8Anp TIL of Jack Van Der Geest- a Dutch resistance fighter who was one of eight people to escape from Buchenwald. Pretending to be dead, at 80 lbs. he hid in a pile of bodies for 11 hours before killing a Nazi, stealing his uniform and a motorcycle to escape.
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