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TIL that the biomass of domesticated poultry (mostly chickens) is about three times higher than all wild birds combined. About 65.8 billion chickens were consumed as meat in 2016.

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M7RGK TIL that the vaguely named vegetable oil is not derived from corn, wheat, or a variety of other vegetables but almost always soybean oil.
d8e7B TIL of Rhythm O, a work by performance artist Marina Abramovic. An audience was invited to do to her what they wished with any of 72 objects, including a loaded gun, as she stood passive for six hours. She was cut with razors and assaulted. The audience fled when she became 'active' again.
LQyn9 TIL Legendary Wild West gambler and gun man Doc Holliday was convinced he would be killed in a shootout with his boots on. Instead he lay dying of tuberculosis in a hospital, asked the nurse for a shot of whisky which she denied, looked down at his bootless feet, said "This is funny" and died.
awxZb TIL the Apollo program was named after the Greek god of light, music, and the Sun, by NASA manager Abe Silverstein. Silverstein chose the name at home one evening, early in 1960, because he felt "Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program."
GAQKg TIL Belgium recently went 652 days without a government (2018-2020)! They also had a previous record of 541 days without a government back in 2010-2011.