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TIL that chickens are now about 3 times more efficient at turning feed into breast meat than their counterparts in the 1950s. As a result, they are massively bigger than they were decades ago.

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j6EER TIL That Practicing Christians (5%) are more than twice as likely to adopt than the general population (2%). Catholics are three times as likely. And evangelicals are five times as likely to adopt as the average adult.
6EVJQ TIL for the first 40 million years that woody trees were around, wood was not biodegradable...until a fungus figured out how to rot it
Oxl4 TIL Ten days after the Chernobyl disaster, further risk of massive thermal explosion was identified, then three men known as “The Chernobyl divers” volunteered to swim through pooled water under leaked reactor to find and release the safety valves. They died few days later due to radiation exposure
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