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TIL That A Chicken Gun is a Cannon designed to fire dead chickens at aircraft to test their resilience against bird strikes

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neDVb TIL that most Confederate statues were raised long after the Civil War by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in an effort to further the Lost Cause alternate version of history.
jNVpp TIL That if a female octopus is not interested in mating, but the male proceeds in his attempt, the female octopus will begin to mate with the male, before she lunges forward, suffocating the male, and eats his dead body.
wLm66 TIL that Hindu genealogy registers are kept by the Pandits in Haridwar, India. Some of them stretch across centuries, tracing family history of up to twenty prior generations. These registers are considered sacrosanct and have been used to settle legal disputes relating to inheritance.
7rKJx TIL Michael Jordan (NBA) holds the record for most points scored by an individual in a single playoff game with 63. Post-game, Larry Bird said, “I think it’s just God disguised as MJ.”
6nbY TIL Texas elected a female governor in 1925—after her husband, a previous governor, was impeached and convicted and barred from holding office. She campaigned saying as governor she’d follow his advice.