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Today I learned that there are two different types of chickens for egg and meat production

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X0K8E TIL that Galileo likely observed Neptune 233 years before its discovery: In two of his drawings of his observations, he plotted an object in the location where Neptune would have been on those dates. However, he likely mistook it for a star because of its slow rate of motion.
oRerY TIL: That between the years 1790 and 1800, Philadelphia was in fact the capital of the United States of America. The capital of the United States was moved to Washington D.C. in 1800 upon completion of the White House and U.S. Capitol buildings, where it has remained ever since.
rNr50 TIL 77% of Canadian women have a tertiary education.
M6J8 TIL that, at one time, “batman” was an official rank in the British Army…
VVoB TIL in 2012 Verizon’s CFO, addressed data plan concerns, telling attendees at a Goldman Sachs investor conference “Unlimited is just a word, it doesn’t really mean anything.” He continued: “That whole unlimited thing, I think, is going by the wayside.”