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TIL chickens who watched a video of another chicken eating from a particular food dish were more likely to later choose to eat out of that same dish themselves

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4ooo TIL In the Bible, The New Testament mentions that from Heaven will descend an enormous city named New Jerusalem made of “pure gold, like clear glass” and gives its specific dimensions, 1.9 million square miles. If rested on the Earth, its ceiling would be inside the exosphere.
x9Y1 TIL A guy named Seth Putnam wrote a song about how being in a coma was stupid, and soon after went into a coma himself. After he awoke, when asked how it felt to be in a coma he said, “It was just as f*cking stupid as I wrote about in my song”.
lo407 TIL the small town of Tanner, Alabama has the distinction of being hit by two F5 tornadoes within a 30 minutes timeframe. On the night of April 3, 1974, rescuers in Tanner were busy searching for victims of the first twister when they were surprised by a second which wiped out the rest of the town
KOGXR TIL that Francis Bellamy, famous for creating the United States pledge of allegiance, was “an early American democratic socialist” who "believed in the absolute separation of church and state" and did not include the phrase "under God" in his pledge.
V1G8 TIL popcorn used to be used as breakfast cereal