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TIL Chickens and turkeys are more closely related to dinosaurs than any other bird

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d8Mp7 TIL the Norse gods eventually got sick of Loki’s pranks, tied him up with the entrails of his kids, and had a snake drip poison in his face for 10,000 years
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KOEPa TIL Yogi Bear used to be the mascot of a chicken restaurant franchise, and when they all closed, the statues were dumped in the middle of a forest. This site became a tourist attraction in and of itself, known as the "Yogi Bear Graveyard".
BrEmL TIL that in 2001 Kenny Waters, a Massachusetts man who was wrongly imprisoned for 18 years for murder, was finally freed after his high-school drop-out sister went to law school to prove his innocence. However, 6 months after his release, he died in a freak accident.
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