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TIL, there is anall black chicken- Ayam Cemani

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b6kV9 TIL about 21% of beef in the US comes from culled dairy cows, sold for slaughter at around age 5 when their milk production drops off. This culling increases profitability and so subsidizes the cost of the milk production.
mxxGO “Across the atmosphere of Earth, lightning flashes about 50 times per second. That’s 4.3 million times a day and roughly 1.5 billion times a year.”
J1NMl TIL Volkswagen was created on the direct orders of Adolf Hitler
XEWdD TIL coral are actually animals, not plants, since they do not make their own food. They are the largest structures of biological origin on Earth. Most structures that we call "coral" are, in fact, made up of hundreds to thousands of tiny coral creatures called polyps, which secrete calcium carbonate
a8Vo0 TIL that limelight is a type of lighting once used for stages. Intense illumination is created when a flame fed by oxygen and hydrogen is directed at a cylinder of quicklime. Long since replaced by electric lighting, the term has survived; someone in the public eye is said to be "in the limelight."