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TIL the bald eagle hasn’t been considered an endangered species since 2007.

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4kkvX TIL that 10 million people (1/4 of USA population!!) physically attended the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876 (see link, Yale Univ. Professor Blight, at time 6:00 in video)
OGkNY TIL that the biomass of domesticated poultry (mostly chickens) is about three times higher than all wild birds combined. About 65.8 billion chickens were consumed as meat in 2016.
6Ydm TIL Habeas Corpus is a law because when the UK Parliament voted on it in 1679, they jokingly counted a fat guy as ten votes
yY1J TIL $44B of gift cards have gone unclaimed since 2008
nWe97 TIL that at 14, Robert McGee was tomahawked, shot with a pistol and multiple arrows, and scalped while he was still conscious. He survived.