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TIL chickens used to be fitted with rose tinted glasses to reduce instances of chicken cannibalism and to help prevent attacks on injured birds.

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vjAK TIL that when a google employee dies their spouses receive half pay from the company for 10 years and their children receive 1,000 dollars per month until they’re at least 19
RZna TIL that facts don’t win arguments because of something called the ‘backfire effect’ in which “corrections actually increase misperceptions among the group in question.” Since your friend knows you and your opinions well, he or she does not view you as an all-knowing source of information.
rRpLW TIL that Collateral (2004) and The Transporter (2002) take place in the same universe. Transporter director Louis Leterrier revealed that Jason Statham reprised his role as Frank Martin when he delivered the brief case to Tom Cruise in the opening scene of Collateral.
nR8d TIL that if you send a letter to Israel addressed to god, they will place it in the Western Wall, where visitors traditionally place handwritten notes of prayer and wishes in the cracks between its stones.
xoX5 TIL Georges Lucas’ daughter is an aspiring mixed martial artist with a 4-1 record.