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TIL global chicken population is 24 billion

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ZpG74 TIL that the de facto main language between Singaporeans is Singaporean Colloquial English, AKA broken English/Singlish
LkovQ TIL in 1924, a Russian scientist started blood transfusion experiments, hoping to achieve eternal youth. After 11 blood transfusions, he claimed he had improved his eyesight and stopped balding. He died after a transfusion with a student suffering from malaria and TB (The student fully recovered).
8eMVa TIL Why England didn't have cowboys. Large herds of cattle were once driven south from Scotland, by a drover and his dogs. These dogs were often left to find their own way home, moving hundreds of miles the length of England. Innkeepers who fed them on the way were repaid by the drover next summer.
Oo7R TIL the phrase ‘Gotta catch 'em all!’ was retired in 2003
ky57 TIL Tuberculosis was so romanticized during the Victorian era that fashion trends emerged to highlight and emulate the symptoms of the disease. This fashion movement is referred to as “Consumptive Chic”.