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TIL Disney employs the use of sentinel chickens to determine if the mosquito population in the area is carrying any diseases

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bxk4 TIL that the Isareli airline El Al has an onboard anti-aircraft missile system equipped in their planes. They are the only airline that places its cargo in a decompression chamber before take-off.
Wk8kA TIL that no significant nutritional differences exist between foods prepared by conventional and microwave methods.
QNb8p TIL about the battle of athens, when a group of ww2 vets banded together and overthrew their local government.
QNlWd TIL baby bottles are at least 3000 years old. Egyptian pottery from 1500 BCE depicts women feeding babies with animal horns, and archaeological evidence shows that ceramic vessels were used as early as 1200 BCE to feed babies with animal milk.
rWlw TIL that in 1898, a Bayer businessman named a drug they’d developed, “Heroin,” as it was expected to be a heroic cure for tuberculosis. Ironically, illicit heroin use later contributed to an epidemic resurgence of the disease.