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TIL that there are more chickens on planet earth than humans

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BrOkD TIL that the longest river in America by main stem is actually the Missouri, not the Mississippi.
4P1N TIL in 2012 a 9-year-old boy decided he wanted to help the families of fallen US soldiers. He started a Facebook page and ‘traded up’ his toy soldier into $900 worth of Disney World gift certificates. He then gave the dream holiday to a 2 year-old girl who had lost her father in Afghanistan.
v15B TIL Apple makes it’s employee’s work on fake projects until they can be trusted.
kx0W TIL that during prohibition, the US government ordered poison be added to industrial alcohol to discourage consumption. People continued to drink it, so the government mandated more potent poison and it killed as many as 10,000 people.
loYaa TIL about Typhoid Mary: the first asymptomatic carrier of typhoid. In her job as a cook she infected 51 people. She was forcibly isolated for 3 years; being released on the promise she didn’t return to cooking. She did return, was caught and confined for the remainder of her life (23 years).