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TIL a pickle is a cucumber

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VMWkm TIL that there are more chickens on planet earth than humans
NXQk6 TIL woodpeckers have long tongues to protect their brains during high speed pecking.
VLg0 TIL Goldman Sachs made big money helping to falsify Greece’s EU application, hiding massive amounts of debt. They then used that inside information to bet AGAINST Greek bonds, and made a killing.
EP7W TIL that the phrase “Blood is thicker than water” was originally “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb,” meaning the modern phrase is opposite in meaning to its origin.
6kyZ TIL: The Nullarbor plain: the great expanse of flat, arid, nothingness stretching across Western Australia & South Australia, many assume it’s naming is an indigenous word, but it is latin for “No trees”.