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TIL farmers only need to leave a door open for five minutes for the farm to qualify as "free-range". Apart from the "open door", no other criteria for environmental quality, number of birds, or space per bird, are defined.

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yPZe TIL that diamond oceans exist on Uranus and Neptune
Y4DG TIL Apple is purposely slowing down your iphones with software upgrades designed to significantly slow down older models and force users to upgrade to new model. It’s a marketing practice called “planned obsolescence”.
Zl8v TIL “Brasil” not only refers to a country, but also a mythical island west of Ireland said to be cloaked in mist for all but one day every seven years.
gMGrb TIL scientists estimate around 2.5 billion T. Rex lived over the species' ~127,000 generations. At any given time, around 20,000 individuals walked the earth.
KwkB TIL The Royal Canadian Mint is issuing a glow-in-the-dark dinosaur quarter.