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TIL: Benjamin Franklin inadvertently electrocuted himself while attempting to kill a Turkey.

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oB4kW TIL about Hell, a village in Norway that has a grocery store, gas station, a fast food shop, and a retirement home. Until late 1995, the European route E6 highway went through Hell and across the Hell bridge, so you were literally able to drive on the Highway to Hell.
lAra TIL that the US allows US chickens to be shipped to China for processing and then shipped back to the US without notifying consumers the chicken came from China.
OoGk7 TIL the term "genuine leather" isn't reassuring you that the item is made of real leather, it as an actual distinct grade of leather and is the second worst type of leather there is.
epdk5 TIL in 2010, Sandra Bullock made history when she won an Oscar and Razzie in the same year.
KxdB TIL In the mid 1990’s the bees in an apple-growing region of China called Maoxian County, disappeared. People then started pollinating apple trees by hand using brushes made of chopsticks and chicken feathers.As a result, apple production increased 30-40%.