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TIL that the oldest living chicken was also in a magic act and met Jay Leno on The Tonight Show

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MYrm Today i learned, there is a river in china so polluted it has turned red.
yVk5J TIL Helen Keller is credited with having introduced the Akita, a Japanese dog breed, to the United States
p8pKO TIL that scientists came together in a unique study that observed exactly 1,893 dogs pooping among 37 different breeds of dog, and found that dogs have "magnetoreception". Apparently while they are calm, they poop facing north or south. Quite a few other mammals do this too.
8eBBL TIL A female donkey was acquitted on charges of bestiality at a trial in 1750 due to witnesses attesting to her virtue and good behaviour, but her co-accused human was sentenced to death.
KbrE TIL Ol Dirty Bastard from the Wu-tang Clan helped lift a ford mustang off of a 4 year old girl who was just in a car accident. Using a false name he visited the girl frequently until he was spotted by members of the media.