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TIL Hens can spontaneously become roosters
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TIL that the recipe "Engagement chicken" got its name after Kathy Suder and later several of her co-workers received engagement proposals after serving it to their boyfriends.
VML1k
TIL: When Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premiered, it was so new and innovative that some music critics didn't accept it, and one even called it "monstrous and tasteless."
makM
TIL in the most extensive case of health care billing fraud in US Department of Justice history, in which 243 people were busted for fraudulent billing to the tune of $712M, one Doctor had billed for 205 hours in a single day.
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TIL that turning left on a red light is permitted in some states after a complete stop, from a one-way street to a one-way street, unless otherwise posted.
kOAje
TIL of the Einstein Cross. It's a quasar directly behind a galaxy and due to gravitational lensing, it appears as 4 images of the quasar around the galaxy