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TIL Almost all chickens eaten today come from the winner of the 1948 ‘Chicken of Tomorrow’ Contest whose genetics now dominate poultry farms worldwide.

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aByy TIL the largest nuclear disaster in the U.S. was at Santa Susana Field Laboratory in CA and it released 240 times the amount of radiation than the incident at Three Mile Island
lon7 TIL that if you draw a line around some Ants, they won’t cross it. Calcium Carbonate in chalk will puncture their skin and kill them with dehydration
69Agl TIL France hadn't become a linguistically unified country (under French) until the end of the 19th century. By 1914, almost all French could read and understand the national language, though 50% still understood or spoke a regional language of France compared to today's 10% of French who can do that
LQk6P TIL Moe Howard of The Three Stooges once broke three ribs filming a pratfall. Dazed, he managed to pick himself up off the ground and slap Curly in the face before passing out. The footage ended up being used in the finished short.
VM7W8 Today I learned that the peanut butter jelly time vocalist died in a 11 hour shooting, his brother in law was snoop Dogg