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TIL that roosters have build in ear protection to prevent them from going deaf from their own crowing

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Bg1mb TIL that Lea Thompson (of "Back to the Future" fame) has directed a bunch of television episodes, the latest of which is her second effort for "Star Trek: Picard"
9wVY7 TIL Australia's first govt-backed pill & drug testing service, after its first month of operation, found that all the cocaine tested by the service had purity levels below 27% with 40% of the samples containing zero cocaine.
E1Xl7 TIL Famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen once believed tamed polar bears would be a better choice than dogs for pulling sledges. He tried to tame a bear cub he’d captured on a trip to the Arctic but killed it with chloroform after it attacked him. The stuffed cub resides in a museum near Oslo.
wo6WW TIL that in 1959 the Omaha VA Hospital purchased a nuclear reactor for $154,000, it was in operation until 2001 when it was dismantled for security concerns following 9/11.
MxPK TIL: China used RPGs to disperse rain clouds during the olympics