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TIL that 3 out of 5 people in Maine live in a rural area.
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TIL Science shows that the Egg came first, not the Chicken. 1. The first egg was laid by a bird that was not a chicken. 2. The first amniotic (hard-shelled) egg laid on land was around 312 million years ago. Chickens are domesticated descendants of red junglefowl from at most 8000 years ago.
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TIL The FBI kept a file on Stanley Kubrick because Admiral Arleigh Burke accused Dr. Strangelove of being "detrimental to the Nation"
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TIL Bill Murray once got lost in the jungles of Bali and put on an impromptu show for the villagers
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TIL There is a car called the Youxia in China, it's based on KIT from Knight Rider and Youxia is a Chinese name for a historical group of "Knight Errants"
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TIL scientists have forced naked mole rats to live in concentrated areas of radiation and injected with carcinogens, but they have never developed cancer. They tolerate acid, live 6 times longer than other rodents, they survive long periods of oxygen deprivation and can live in heavy polluted areas.