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TIL Chicks can be born with four legs

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4BZX TIL that in the 1920’s soviet researcher Ilya Ivanov inseminated female chimpanzees with his own sperm, and human women with chimpanzee sperm.
BrVWb TIL about Anatoli Brouchkov - a Russian scientist who injected himself with a 3.5 million year old strain of bacteria just to see what would happen.
nbLW TIL that in 1938 China’s Nationalist government ordered the opening of dikes on the Yellow River to create a flood and slow the Japanese advance to Wuhan. While the advance was delayed, the flood also caused around 500,000 to 900,000 Chinese civilian deaths.
8a7XZ TIL a 74-year-old woman lay dead for a decade in her apartment before someone found her body. She lived in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and have died by natural causes. Since she was not officially dead, her pension would be paid every month and the bills would be automatically paid. None noticed.
dDW7 TIL that only 2 of the contestants from Hell’s Kitchen received their promised prizes and that one, Dave, was treated like a line Cook and left shortly after.