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TIL that chickens used to be fitted with tiny glasses to prevent eye-pecking and cannibalism. Rose-colored glasses were especially popular as they were thought to prevent chickens from seeing blood and becoming enraged.

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loYjK TIL Denver, Colorado is the only city to be awarded the Olympic Games to reject them.
b9nLQ TIL there was a copper scroll found among the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1952 that is not a literary work like the others. Instead it lists the locations of valuable treasures such as silver and gold that have been buried or hidden.
7GGM TIL the Popsicle was invented by an 11-year old boy who accidentally left his drink and stir-stick outside overnight
RRL9 TIL there’s a militant Islamist group called MILF
yQZXp TIL there are less sharks now more than ever because they often habitate on the same routes as industrial fishing ships, and are caught as bycatch. As the apex predators of the oceans, sharks keep other marine life in healthy balance and help regulate the oceans. Reduce sharks numbers = reduce us.