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TIL global chicken population is 24 billion

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R7eMj TIL legendary film director Sergio Leone and composer Ennio Morricone, whose collaboration would make the history of cinema, were schoolmates in grade school.
kOMwd TIL That Rankin/Bass, the company behind many classic Christmas movies such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, often outsourced the traditional animation aspects of their films to Japanese studios. One of those was a studio called Topcraft, which employed a young artist named Hayao Miyazaki
w5KY TIL the movie “Blazing Saddles” was the first film from a major studio to have a fart joke.
oRlRK TIL that the first American flag was NOT designed by Bob Heft, a high school student in 1958.
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