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TIL Chickens can Fly

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OGOoL TIL the Amtrak Cardinal got its name because it runs through six states that all have the cardinal as their state bird
W948 TIL that Nintendo of America owns the baseball team Seattle Mariners.
rRYp1 TIL in 1973, a volcano erupted on the Icelandic island of Heimaey. Rather than fleeing to safety, the residents of the island sprayed the advancing lava flow with seawater in order to form a wall and direct the lava into the sea.
NwO6 TIL The United States only has 36 lbs of plutonium left. The Mars Curiosity rover uses 10 lbs of it all for itself.
oRK8R TIL that the said exorcism case which inspired the 1970s novel and movie 'The Exorcist' was supposedly performed on an 14 yeard-old boy in St. Louis in 1949. According to some reports, he passed away in 2020 and worked as an NASA engineer until 2001, contributing to the Apollo Program.