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TIL male chicks of egg-laying chicken strains serve no purpose in agriculture and are killed by high speed grinders, poisonous gas, neck breaking, electrocution, or suffocation as soon as their sex is determinable.

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dbxK TIL that racecar driver Alan Stacey died in 1960 when he crashed after being hit in the face by a bird at 120mph
neMOd TIL that Brenda Song turned down Harvard University (at 15) to play London Tipton in ‘The Suite Life of Zack and Cody’
yQ9VV TIL that the 2016 Rio Olympics were a huge financial disaster for Brazil. A $12bn price tag for the venues without any real plan on how to continue has left facilities,used by legendary athletes just years ago, in disrepair. The aquatic center pictured is now drained and filled with dirty puddles
xQdk TIL: The most recycled material in the US is asphalt. “99% of all asphalt is recycled & used to fix/build roads…US taxpayers saved $2.2B in 2011 by using recycled materials to pave roads. 66.7M tons of reclaimed asphalt pavement & 1.2M tons of reclaimed asphalt shingles went into paving projects.”
YpvjP TIL The Y2K bug was real but the predictions of a world-shaking disaster were utter nonsense and caused by hucksters looking to profit from it.