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TIL that chickens don't need males to lay eggs.

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Z8KRo TIL on four separate occasions, British retailer B&Q has had to recall sonic mole repellers in its Northern Ireland stores after being informed there are no moles in Ireland.
Py7g TIL that John F. Kennedy, Aldous Huxley, And C.S Lewis all died on the same day.
p8JAG TIL The Vietnam government executes corporate executives convicted of financial crimes or corporate malfeasance.
OGgMe TIL about the Japanese pocket knife “Higonokami”. After feudal Japan slowly transformed into a modern industrial state, samurai became obsolete and were banned from carrying swords in public. Consequently, blacksmiths started making knives; with the higonokami becoming the most unique one.
KYK66 TIL about PCR, which is a technique to make billions of copies of a specific DNA from a very small sample. The mix containing DNA is repeatedly heated and cooled, this breaks the DNA molecule and then duplicates it exponentially. The secret? A bacteria living in hot springs has a special enzyme