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TIL that "free-range" is a USDA regulated term. Free-range chickens must have free access to food and water and the ability to roam free, but typically do so in massive indoor sheds. Further, free-range chickens only need "access" to the outdoors. A hole they can stick their head out of is enough.

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1a00W TIL about the Young Pioneers, a mass youth organization of the Soviet Union for children of age 9–15 that existed between 1922 and 1991. In line with the Soviet doctrine of state atheism, "every Pioneer would set up an atheist's corner at home with anti-religious pictures, poems, and sayings"
4X6AN TIL that the skull the Russians used to prove Hitler's death is actually the skull of a women
woYr8 TIL about Lord Sedley, a prominent member of Charles II court, who was fined for getting naked and performing obscenities on a balcony in 1663, only to pay his fine with the kings money.
palp TIL on November 5, 1995, a deranged man entered the home of the Canadian Prime Minister with the intention of assassinating him. He was thwarted in his attempt when the wife of the Prime Minister simply locked their bedroom door.
XLx8 TIL two patients taking the anti-depressant ‘clomipramine’ reported the side effect that every time they yawned they had an orgasm.