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TIL Brahma chicken can be up to 30 inches tall and as heavy as 12 pounds

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xnL5 TIL Ho Chi Minh worked at a pub in West London in 1914
jNJbn TIL 20th Century Fox, convinced that Star Wars was going to flop, agreed to George Lucas’s proposition to forgo an additional $500K directing fee in return to keep licensing and merchandising rights for himself. This decision cost Fox billions and made George Lucas a Billionaire.
Zy0a TIL that police can reject police officers that score too high in IQ claiming that “those who scored too high could get bored with police work”.
nenpd TIL Al Capone was the first person to open a soup kitchen to feed the poor during the Depression. At a time of 25 percent unemployment, Capone's kitchens served three meals a day to ensure that everyone who had lost a job could get a meal. Soon, every city and town had a soup kitchen.
7rgKZ TIL the man in Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' is not the one screaming, nature is. Munch says it depicts "a vast infinite scream through nature" that he felt. Because of the red skies in Norway at the time some believe that The Scream was from the Krakatoa Eruption.