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TIL Chickens lay one or sometimes more unfertilised or fertilised eggs a day until they have collected a clutch. If you continually collect eggs daily they will continually lay eggs because their goal is to have a clutch.

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mx4kp TIL that when Peter Sutcliffe, aka the Yorkshire Ripper responsible for 13 murders, was arrested, police found he was wearing a v-neck sweater as underwear with his legs going through each sleeve.
wNJ1 TIL bananas are actually used for scale… for measuring radioactivity
KaV4 TIL in 1995 a Virginia inmate sued himself for $5 million for violating his own civil rights by getting drunk and getting arrested. The judge dismissed the case but congratulated the man on his “innovative approach to civil rights litigation.”
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