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TIL that there are more chickens on planet earth than humans

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NX0d6 TIL Uri Geller owns an island off the coast of Scotland which he declared a micronation and is offering citizenship for $1.
W7Le9 TIL :Life expectancy at birth averaged only about 10 years for most of human history.
R7Roj TIL that when William the Conqueror died his funeral was delayed for several days. By the time they laid him to rest his body was too bloated from decay to fit in his tomb. They tried to force it in and he exploded.
RaB9 TIL there is a medicine being developed that will not only cure the common cold, but pretty much any viral infection you could get, including possibly HIV. (Why can’t we fast-track this research?)
9OGr TIL that when the Nazi Party held its first book burnings, one of the works destroyed was an 1821 play by Heinrich Heine containing the famous phrase “Where they burn books, they will also in the end burn people.”