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TIL Geese are the oldest known domesticated bird species

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xVPBD TIL that following a plagiarism trial against Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown, the judge handed down his ruling with his own code embedded within. It was later discovered by a writer for The Guardian & dubbed "The Smithy Code".
epgR5 TIL For 1 day in February 2018, China's internet censors banned the letter 'N'
wL5W1 TIL a casket is rectangular and a coffin is hexagonal. The tapered ends of a coffin saves a bit of cost because it uses less material to make.
WpeX TIL there are millions of chemical bombs lying in our oceans after being dumped there after the first and second world war, because authorities didn’t have a way to dispose of them properly.
vPlPD TIL the saying "Drink the Kool-Aid" comes from a cult mass-suicide of 900 in Guyana in 1978 where the cultists drank it laced with cyanide. I also learned the drink was NOT Kool-Aid. It was actually poisoned Flavor Aid.