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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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8aR9b TIL Before being unified, Upper Canada was south of Lower Canada
kO8Lm TIL: Of Sir Nicholas Windon, who saved 669 children in 1938 from German concentration camps. He kept his heroic deed a secret for 50 years, until his wife found a list of the children's names in their attic.
7EbO TIL:In 2009 a Azerbaijan man revenge raped the man who raped his son
8ePpG TIL that singer Dean Martin didn’t speak English until he started school at the age of five, as his first language was Italian. Because of his broken English, he was bullied in elementary school.
GYwV1 TIL In 1907 Standard Oil developed the the Mei Foo kerosene lamp, which translates in Chinese to “beautiful confidence.” In its first year, more than 850,000 lamps were sold in China at around 7.5 cents each, and could stay lit for more than 240 hours on a single gallon of kerosene.