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TIL "Chicken Sexism" - Over 45 million male chicks are slaughtered every year in Germany alone as they are considered useless in modern poultry farming.

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yQN7l TIL of Kodinhi in India, which has the highest twin rate in the world, with over 400 twins in about 2000 families. Scientists aren't sure of why this is, but it has been observed that even when women of Kodinhi have children with men outside of their village, the twin birth rate is still high.
jd8v TIL the person most directly responsible for the scale of tragedy of the Titanic was a radio operator who told the closest ship to shut up after it radioed iceberg warnings. As a result the ship shut off its radio. It would easily have arrived in time to save everyone on board.
WkxDN TIL about Jonny Kim who is a Navy SEAL, a Harvard Medical Doctor, and a NASA Astronaut
9YZ66 TIL of Justine Sacco who before a flight to South Africa in 2013 tweeted to her 170 followers "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just Kidding. I'm white!" By the time she landed she was the number one trending topic in the world and had been fired
nWNrY TIL that up until the 19th Century, European scientists had little evidence that birds migrated during the winter. It wasn't until a stork returned with a spear made of African wood through its neck that scientists had significant proof of long-distance migration.