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TIL that 13% of American households own backyard chickens

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5XZR TIL, when Green day singer Billie Joe Armstrong’s father died when he was a child. He ran home from the funeral and locked himself in his room. When his mother followed him home and asked him to come out. He told her to “wake me up when september ends.”
Mebva TIL that the model for Uncle Sam on the famous 1917 poster “I Want You” is the face of the painter, James Montgomery who used his own picture in order to avoid the need to find a model. For effect, he aged his portrait and added the goatee beard.
9vmD TIL that giving an engagement ring when proposing is just a very successful ad campaign by the De Beers cartel.
8aalX TIL that physicist Richard Feynman encouraged his sister Joan to study the universe, despite their mother's belief that women were incapable of fully understanding science. Joan went on to become an astrophysicist.
nWWwd TIL that dandelions are edible and are actually really nutritious and can be eaten raw