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TIL Hens don't require a Rooster to produce an egg.

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76OZ TIL that Steven Bradbury, an Australian short track speed skater, won an Olympic gold medal in the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics by cruising behind his opponents and waiting until they crashed during both the semifinal and the final.
L1Yr TIL: In 1995, St. Jude’s Hospital received an anonymous letter with a $1 million winning McDonald’s Monopoly game piece. Although it was against the rules to transfer prizes, McDonald’s honored it even after learning that the piece was sent by an individual involved in an embezzlement scheme.
QJrlk TIL that Farming Simulator has a competitive scene.
b6nA4 TIL that in Wuppertal, Germany in 1950, the circus elephant Tuffi broke through a window of a moving overhead railway and fell 12 metres down in a river, while on promotion tour for a circus. Luckily she survived with minor injuries.
wJZ8 TIL Iran tried to get into the Guinness book of world records by making the worlds largest sandwich. But people started eating it before it could be officially measured so they failed.