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TIL Chickens can spontaneously change their sex

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Oolve TIL "pH" stands for "potential of hydrogen" - the more hydrogen ions in a liquid, the more alkaline it is
YpPyx TIL McDonald's purchases over 2 billion eggs per year which equates to 4 percent of eggs produced in the United States.
n0NY TIL that when the mummy of Pharaoh Ramesses II needed to be moved to Paris for restoration, it was issued an Egyptian passport that listed his occupation as “King (deceased)”. The mummy was received with the full military honours usually accorded to royalty.
OGen4 TIL that Hitler accused Czechoslovakia of committing genocide against ethnic Germans, prior to annexing and invading the country.
vPZK7 TIL: Maryland was a slave state that sided with the Union, but in 1864, they actually had a referendum to abolish slavery. It narrowly failed - until the absentee ballots from the soldiers at the front came in, at which point it overwhelmingly succeeded.