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TIL Most farm raised turkeys can't mate due to being selected for meatier breasts and need artificial insemination.

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BgWDK TIL that the song "Istanbul (not Constantinople)", famously sung by The Four Lads in 1953 and They Might Be Giants in 1990, was written to mark the 500th anniversary of the city's titular name change.
60BZ TIL there is a bone disorder in children that causes their bones to be extremely, easily broken, and that parents are going to prison for child abuse because the disorder is very often overlooked or misdiagnosed.
0dAxR TIL Pupil dilation from the dilating eye drops given before an eye test lasts longer in people with blue eyes than brown eyes.
NXP1e TIL that the word kidnap is relatively recent and originally meant "to steal or carry off children or others in order to provide servants or labourers for the American plantations."
Egmbw Today I learned that every Sturgeon caught in British waters has to be offered to the reigning monarch.