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TIL A chicken in Indonesia has such a distinctive crow it is used as a foghorn on boats.

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vOyx TIL Google has an archive of newspapers, with the oldest dating back to August 28, 1738
VMExZ TIL Joseph Pilates was a German working in England when WW1 broke out. While interned in a prison camp he developed a method of exercise prisoners could perform in confined space using just their own body weight. It worked well and was a hit, and he eventually moved to the US in 1926.
VBQlZ TIL that Ezzard Charles (who had killed one opponent in the ring) was the only boxer to have ever lasted the full 15 rounds against Rocky Marciano.
OGaNe TIL in the 1900s, the United States Radium Corporation employed women to paint watch dials with glow-in-the-dark paint. The women were encouraged to put the paintbrushes in their mouths, leading to many developing fatal illnesses from ingesting radium.
v1Q7j TIL that USSR detonated a Nuclear Bomb to extinguish a gas fire (255 Urta-Bulak)