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TIL Modern broiler chickens have been bred to get so heavy so quickly it can lead to bone deformities

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R5961 TIL that when composer Joseph Haydn died his head was stolen for study by people practicing phrenology-the pseudoscientific study of how the shape of ones skull reflects their intellect. His skull was eventual returned and interred with the rest of his body in 1954, 145 years later.
9YYXG Short answer: Pigments offer protection
Lkpvr TIL that for 2-syllable heteronyms (in English) that have 1 noun meaning and 1 verb meaning, there exist a pattern where the noun is 1st syllable stressed and the verb is 2nd syllable stressed, e.g Present, Record, Contract, Project, Insult
Bmeb TIL the Canadians had Japanese internment camps like the Americans
R7pxa TIL of "begpackers", mainly white young travelers who beg or sell cheap trinkets on Asian streets to live on.