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TIL that there are more chickens on planet earth than humans
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TIL Elephants "may show lateral preference when grasping with their trunks: some prefer to twist them to the left, others to the right." Essentially, they can be left or right "trunked"!
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TIL of a brawl involving 50 congressmen on the US House floor in 1858. It ended when someone knocked off a man's wig and the man accidentally put it back on backwards, causing both sides to laugh and stop fighting.
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TIL: Samuel Morse invented the telegraph after he received a letter of his wife’s failing health… after she’d died.
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TIL that when Socrates was found guilty of impiety and corruption of the youth, his punishment was put to a vote. He had the choice to suggest an alternative to death, but instead nominated that Athens provide him free meals for the rest of his life.
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TIL there was only 1 victim of credit card fraud in Canada 2016. They lost $214.