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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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5w08 TIL that due to their small brains koalas are unable to perform complex, unfamiliar tasks such as eat leaves off of flat surfaces.
p8W8e TIL When The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie was released, several promotional inflatables where stolen off the roofs of Burger Kings, with some culprits demanding ransoms and some restaurants offering a reward. These Spongenappings continued in 2012, when the sequel was released.
9wN4B TIL the orbits of the planets are coplanar because during the Solar System's formation, the planets formed out of a disk of dust which surrounded the Sun. Because that disk of dust was a disk, all in a plane, all of the planets formed in a plane as well.
4kkkR TIL about wordnesia, when familiar words suddenly seem like the strangest things. It occurs when you can’t spell the simplest words or words look strange after you write them.
Q8rd TIL in 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved