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TIL the biomass of domesticated poultry is about three times higher than that of wild birds.

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1vd4 TIL Bob Barker learned karate from Chuck Norris and continued to train until he was in his 70s, when he decided that “the time had come to exercise more lightly.”
epAlg TIL that scientists in 1997 witnessed a massive battle b/w 9 sperm whales & up to 35 orcas off the coast of Cal. that "clearly establish for the first time that killer whales are predators of sperm whales." The "apparent helplessness of the sperm whales" was striking w/ maybe all 9 eventually dying.
b95G7 TIL During the May 1968 protests in France, the government came so close to collapsing that Charles de Gaulle fled the country while officials began burning documents, obtaining fake IDs, and planning their escapes. The prime minister was offered a gun with the advice, "You will need it."
JVLB TIL the United states never ratified two protocols of the Geneva convention including the outlaw of indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations.
jNkRX TIL that since it can't match the Earth's rotational speed, a westward plane technically travels east — just like the entire planet beneath it. It just has engines that help it travel east a little more slowly than everything else, making it move west relative to the ground.