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Wk4Z9 TIL that male chicks are ground up alive on their first day of birth in the egg industry
69WMl TIL; The character of Rocky was based upon a real life boxer who was not expected to go 3 rounds against Muhammad Ali. To everyone's surprise, he went 15 rounds.
D1LZv TIL a majority of Icelanders believe in the existence of elves
oOQR TIL Omnipotence paradox: Can God create a stone so heavy that he cannot lift it? If he can’t, the argument goes, then there is something that he cannot do, and therefore he is not omnipotent. If he can, it continues, then there is also something that he cannot do, and therefore he is not omnipotent.
4LAo TIL that pencils are yellow because, in the 1890’s, the world’s best pencil graphite came from China. In China, the color yellow is associated with royalty, so American pencil manufacturers started painting their pencils yellow to indicate they contained high-quality Chinese graphite.