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TIL that chickens are sometimes cannibals.

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mxRKR TIL that Hildur Guðnadóttir, composer for Joker, composed some of the main pieces having only read the script. Her music was played on set during filming and helped inspire Joaquin's dancing in the pivotal bathroom scene.
6EgbX TIL that the Twinings Tea logo (created in 1787) is the world's oldest in continuous use.
XpLr TIL the first tanks in World War I were held together by rivets until it was discovered that explosions would turn the rivets into shrapnel, injuring soldiers in the tank even if the explosion did not penetrate the armor
mLZP TIL Samuel Johnson wrote a dictionary in 1755, in which he defined oats as: “A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.” A Scottish man was said by Sir Walter Scott to have retorted, “Yes, and where else will you see such horses and such men?”
d9Pj TIL of William James Sidis, a child prodigy thought to have been the smartest man who ever lived, who escaped the limelight and worked blue collar jobs, secretly writing thousands of manuscripts that have never been read.