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TIL Walmart is not allowed in NYC, but Target is

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dpV8 TIL a team of scientists suppressed genes for beak development in a chicken embryo to find out what bird ancestors looked like – and the embryo grew into a chicken with the face of a dinosaur.
78YrP TIL there is a stable population of rhesus macaque monkeys in central Florida. They were released on an island in a swamp as part of a jungle cruise attraction in 1938, but escaped the island because the tour operator didn’t know they could swim.
9YBMG TIL that once you've solved 5,472,730,538 games of Sudoku, you've solved 'em all.
LQRnZ TIL Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was the first commercially released song to be digitally recorded... in 1976!
ne4wd TIL that the Dutch East India Company paid its investors an 18% annual dividend for almost 200 years.