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TIL global chicken population is 24 billion

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epRyk TIL that Disney filming crews push Lemmings down the cliff
Z80Y TIL in the early 1900s, a 5 foot tall man single handedly scuplted and moved many stone blocks that weighed several tons. He never revealed his method and said he knew how the Pyramids were built. His name was Edward Leedskalnin.
MeED8 TIL that a research team figured out how to produce a fossil in as little as five days
b6rla TIL that during the American War of Independence, the Americans who remained loyal to the British Government were also called "Tories," the same label that British Conservatives are named as today.
Ooole TIL when the HMS Sheffield and HMS Coventry were sunk by the Argentinian military during the Falklands war, the crew sang Monty Python's "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" whilst waiting for rescue- the song's line "worse things happen at sea, you know" being especially ironic.