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TIL the chicken is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus

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6ER1J TIL Virgin boy eggs are a traditional dish of Dongyang, Zhejiang, China in which eggs are boiled in the urine of young boys who were presumably peasants, preferably under the age of ten.
QJooL TIL There's a German children's song about monkeys searching a coconut, which goes "The monkeys race through the woods, each one wanting to kill the other" and ending in "And the moral of the story: Do not steal coconuts".
Z4xB TIL That TCP/UDP port 666 is reserved on every Windows computer specifically for the game Doom.
OGAB6 TIL some ants and many other social insects bury their dead. Some even have dedicated corpse-bearers and create whole tombs within their nests. The behavior is known as necrophoresis - a way to prevent pathogens and pests from affecting the rest of the colony.
b941Q TIL the United States military pays professional sports teams to display patriotism. Between 2012-2014 the military spent $10.4 million on marketing contracts with teams in the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and MLS, while spending $88 million sponsoring a NASCAR racer's car.