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TIL the term "okay" is derived from "OK" and not the other way around.

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NXLXe TIL A chicken once lived for 18 months without a head. In the 1940s in the US, a chicken called Mike lived for 18 months without a head. He had been almost completely beheaded with an axe, but crucially the jugular vein and most of the brainstem were left intact.
pbmp TIL that Phillips screws were designed so that the bit slips out when a certain torque is reached, preventing over-tightening of parts
xVkE5 TIL the famous Windows XP background is a photo called "Bliss". The photo is completely unedited and is a real place in California.
J1DZk TIL in 1991 a British man who'd been swimming in the sea with a male wild dolphin was charged with indecency and sent to Crown Court for his treatment of the dolphin. The jury unanimously declared him innocent, leading his local MP to declare: ''This is the most ridiculous case I have heard of."
m1KBO TIL: The entire energy released by the Hiroshima nuclear explosion came from only 0.5g of Uranium