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TIL Batman used guns until 1939.

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nWvVY TIL that one can tell by the ears of chickens what color the eggs they lay. Chickens' ears are actually earlobes, which are flaps of skin under the ear canal that lie just behind the eyes. In most cases, hens with white earlobes also lay white eggs and hens with red earlobes produce brown eggshells.
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mO4o TIL That Bill Nye the Science Guy was a student of Carl Sagan at Cornell
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