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TIL the US agriculture industry was using an arsenic additive for chicken feed up until 2011, and at its peak 1000 tons of it were produced every year. The FDA finally banned its use in 2015, four years after the industry stopped using it.

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d8Drd In this week's Today I Learned, National Geographic photographer and conservation filmmaker Clay Bolt explains how a bumblebee's buzz could be considered a superpower—and one far more beneficial than any run-of-the-mill, comic book variety.
7r1LO TIL the Amen break is the most sampled drum solo in music history.
rRZA4 TIL that a female tiger in India and Nepal killed over 400 people in early 1900's
m4go TIL King Charles VI of France really believed he was made out of glass.
k5ad TIL that there is a system for threatened airline pilots to remove control and navigation capability from everyone on the plane, including themselves, using an Autopilot that cannot be over-ridden from within the plane. “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”