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TIL that there are more chickens on planet earth than humans

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Ak7 TIL That Bill Gates has donated more to charity ($28 Billion) than number eight on the Forbes Rich List (Stefan Persson) is worth ($26.0 billion).
VMKG8 TIL In 2005 war games, a Swedish submarine called HSMS Gotland was able to sneak through the sonar defenses of the US Navy Aircraft Carrier Ronald Reagan and its entire accompanying group, and (virtually)sank the US Aircraft carrier on its own and still got away without getting detected.
W7MEL TIL that Massachusetts is larger than nearly 70 countries.
ANrwa TIL that the McGurk Effect shows how our brains integrate visual and auditory information for speech perception. If the visual information of a speaker’s mouth movements doesn’t match the sound, our brains may perceive a completely different sound.
oBbeL TIL Trees get most of their mass from the carbon dioxide in the air