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TIL there are 35 billion chickens in the world (they outnumber us 5 to 1).

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dNxj TIL a proposal and petition on the White House’s website to build a Death Star that earned 30K signatures. It would have cost $850 quadrillion, and take 833,000 years. The White House said, “the Administration does not support blowing up planets”
7L5O TIL that the word “cool” (meaning popular) as existed a little longer than 1884. Cool has stayed cool for over 100 years.
v4Qr TIL: Montpelier, Vermont. Is the only US State captial to not have a McDonald’s restaurant.
nedLY TIL Of A PREHISTORIC SPERM WHALE, The creature had a far more powerful bite with a nightmarish set of teeth, Twelve to 13 million years ago, it likely dined on smaller whales. It WAS DUBBED LIVYATAN MELVILLEI, giving Moby-Dick’s creator a posthumous shout-out.
yVWmw TIL that three of Jonas Savimbi's children sued Activision for the portrayal of their father in the popular game Black Ops II, citing that he was presented as a "big halfwit who wanted to kill everybody", but the lawsuit was rejected.