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TIL For over 50 years, you could play tic-tac-toe against live chickens in NYC, and they seldom, if ever, lost

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W7Y6N TIL about Tropic-Ana, an early Tropicana orange juice mascot. A little tropical girl carrying a bowl of oranges on her head, she was based on the four-year-old playmate of the logo artist's son. Christine Pool appeared at corporate events and a TV commercial until she accidentally cut off her braid.
NX0b8 TIL Chinese Tencent QQ holds the Guinness World Record for the highest number of simultaneous online users on an instant messaging program with 210,212,085 users online on July 3, 2014.
nW547 TIL that there were only 4 times a US vice president assumed temporary presidential powers as acting president, and each time was due to the president having a colonoscopy.
WkE7N TIL Geothermal water is used to heat around 90% of Iceland's homes, and keeps pavements and car parks snow-free in the winter.
KYNK4 TIL the Pomodoro Technique was developed using a tomato-shaped kitchen timer. 🍅