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TIL 99% of all US chicken is washed in chlorine before reaching consumers.

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78bYP TIL in 1530, the chinese Ming Dynasty invented bronze-iron composite cannons. The Dutch claimed "it’s scarcely possible to find their equal outside of Ming Empire". After manchu Qing dynasty's conquest they deprioritised Gunsmithing and had to use 100-300 years old cannons against British Empire.
X04QR TIL Polish-born American Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski was most likely intersex.
Golg TIL The Massachusetts Language, once spoken by several Algonquin tribes, went extinct in the 1800s. However several documents survived such as Bibles, treaties, and sales papers. In 1993 the Wampanoag tribe started teaching classes and now there are over 400 secondary and 4 native speakers.
0wQKA TIL, when writing from inside Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr spoke of his grave disappointment with the ‘white moderate’
kJGde TIL that for several years after the acclaimed 1974 film The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three came out, transit authorities would avoid having trains scheduled at 1:23.