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9J1B TIL that during the Iraq war in 2003, the U.S. Military planned to attach chickens atop Hum-Vees in order to detect chemical weapons. The project was named, Operation Kuwaiti Field Chicken (KFC). However, the project failed when 41 of the 43 chickens died within a week of their arrival.
v1RE8 TIL that Lebron James refuses to pay for apps or music and only uses his phone when he's on wifi
0JBM TIL Tim Harris is a man with Down syndrome who owns and runs a restaurant in Albuquerque, Tim’s Place. It’s the only known restaurant owned by a person with Down syndrome. He has also won more Olympic medals than Michael Phelps, at the Special Olympics.
x8pw TIL that in 2007 NFL player Braylon Edwards promised 100 Cleveland public high school students that if they kept a 2.5 and performed 15 hours of community service he would pay for their college. They did, and Braylon Edwards kept his word. He spent approximately a million dollars.
VB7Mp TIL In 1848, Poe wrote a prose poem called Eureka, in which he speculated that the universe began from a single point that expanded outward. While not scientifically precise, his ideas eerily resemble modern concepts of the Big Bang nearly 80 years before it was proposed.