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TIL chickens can count and even do some artihmetic

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0VZv TIL the programming language Python is named after the comedy series “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”
v4n7 TIL French’s American Mustard is British Owned
X61k TIL Houdini debunked psychics, a practice that made an enemy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
ZpZdR TIL that defunct airline Pan Am accepted reservation requests from 93,000 people for commercial spaceflights to the moon, which were expected to start departing in the year 2000.
rRpZe TIL: in 1978, 2,300 students tried to set a WR for the largest tug of war game. Instead, disaster ensued. The 2,000ft long braided nylon rope snapped, recoiling several thousand pounds of stored energy. Nearly 200 students lay wounded, 5 with severed fingertips, hundreds more faced 2nd degree burns.