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TIL young, old, or stressed chickens can lay very small eggs (about the size of a nickel or quarter) with no yolks called fairy eggs.

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4GpJ TIL in 1960 a Russian man with a bomb tried to hijack Trans Australia Flight 408. The co-pilot punched him in the face and ripped the wires off the bomb saving everyone on board.
a7xM TIL it is possible to win Monopoly in 21 seconds
LQAG0 TIL an innovative satellite launched in 1962, Telstar 1, was accidentally damaged beyond use by Cold War nuclear bombs. After transmitting the first TV and phone signals and images from space, it broke down due to damage from Soviet & American nuclear tests, but still orbits the earth today.
Zp8XY TIL that it takes about 50 minutes to soft-boil and 90-120 minutes to hard-boil an ostrich egg.
XE88Q TIL The absence of land mammals in New Zealand allowed birds to become dominant, and with fewer threats from predators many species became flightless. NZ is home to the most flightless birds having 16 out of the 60 species worldwide.