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TIL over 22 million chickens are eaten in the US every day.

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69WY8 TIL about the volcano that burped and silently killed 2,000 people. (1986).
5VX1R TIL there's an international treaty preventing the use of Environmental Modification Techniques or "Weather Warfare".
LYV0 TIL that in 1934 a new housing development in Oxford, UK, was built with walls dividing the rich and the poor. Known as the Cutteslowe Walls, they survived until 1959.
E1ZAp TIL that monkeys display metacognitive abilities, which means that they are aware of their own thought process and knowledge, and seek to actively control it.
Zp9B TIL the guards at the maximum security prison in Walpole went on strike in 1973 due to “excessively humane” prison reforms. They left all the cells unlocked, but instead of escaping, the prisoners formed a self functioning anarchist society for 3 months.