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TIL global chicken population is 24 billion

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4Xk1g TIL there is no longer anyone alive who was born in the 1800s
N7lZb TIL that the skeleton of Josef Mengele has been used as a teaching tool in Brazil
MabV TIL that the Twenty-seventh Amendment was ratified after an undergraduate student at Texas University wrote a paper on the amendment. His instructor gave him a ‘C’ calling his idea “unrealistic”. The student then started a letter writing campaign to State Legislatures to get it passed.
xV0J0 TIL between the 16th and 18th centuries, the Catholic church exhumed skeletons from catacombs and decorated them with gold and precious stones to serve as relics for saints. While some of the corpses may have been early martyrs, most actually did not belong to anybody with religious significance.
epeZg TIL that George Washington only left the present-day United States one time in his life, when he traveled to Barbados with his brother in 1751.