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TIL Lance Armstrong is an atheist. He says, "If there was a God, I’d still have both nuts."

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MeoLK TIL that the boots worn by the actors portraying American soldiers in Saving Private Ryan were made by the same company that supplied boots for American soldiers during the Second World War.
ANKGd TIL in project Cybersyn, Chile almost became the first cybernetic state in the world. It was destroyed in the coup of 1973.
rgmy TIL Coffin Torpedoes were invented in the 1800s to prevent grave robberies. They fired if the coffin was opened.
lN7V TIL that in the 1880s, a South African railroad employed a baboon as a railway signalman, paying him 20 cents a day and a half bottle of beer a week. He made no mistakes in 9 years.
xw95 TIL Americans mostly eat white chicken meat and export the rest to Russia/Asia where dark meat is preferred, so most chickens get split in two and sent around the world.