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TIL free range chickens sleep in trees

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ZYNY TIL Private-enterprise prisons have recognized that providing inmates with cable television can be a more economical method to keep them quiet and subdued than it would be to hire more guards
KOlL9 TIL the first vending machine was invented in Ancient Egypt in 215 BCE and sold holy water. It worked by the use of levers meaning a coin would open a tap, letting water out.
e49k TIL when Einstein died in 1955, the physician who conducted his autopsy at Princeton stole his brain and took it home to perform “research”, for which he was ultimately fired after refusing to return the brain. Decades later, he drove to California to return the brain to Einstein’s granddaughter.
9YKgG TIL that one of the most famous viking symbol and the most recognizable, the Valknut, isn't called like that and actually doesn't have any known name.
e0Vv5 TIL: Almost all the spiders you see in your home during the winter were actually born in your home