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TIL 1 in 10000 chickens develops as female on one side and male on the other.

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wLbP TIL that Scarlett Johansson insisted on going topless for the movie “The Island,” but Michael Bay wouldn’t allow it.
M7B0W TIL: In the classic cartoon strip, Tintin, Tintin is always moving left to right and his opponents are moving right to left. His adventure, "Cigars of the Pharoah," had to be redrawn when it was discovered that this rule was broken.
D9WY TIL that after the 1991 START I treaty between the US and the USSR, the US chopped 365 B52 bombers into 5 pieces each using a 13,000lb steel blade dropped from a crane. It then left the pieces there for 3 months so that Russian satellites could verify their destruction.
LYBd TIL U2 pilots were given cyanide suicide pills. After a pilot almost accidentally ingested a suicide pill instead of candy during a flight, the suicide pills were put into boxes to avoid confusion.
R7mv4 TIL that every two years the people of Brussels create a Flower Carpet with more than 500,000 flowers.