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TIL There Are Almost 26.56 Billion Chickens in the World

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m1eDP TIL Roman Polanski's victim forgave him. In March 2023, Geimer and her husband met with Polanski and his wife Seigner for a French magazine cover interview. Geimer states in the interview: "Let me be very clear: what happened with Polanski was never a big problem for me."
84eV TIL the German word for ‘birth control pill’ is 'antibabypille’
7rLjM TIL, the name of the speech impediment that prevents people from pronouncing the letter R, actually begins with the letter R. Rhotacism.
pYe9p TIL that six actors of "The Brady Bunch" reprised their roles for an extended dream sequence in a 1989 episode of the sitcom "Day By Day" and a main actor in "Day By Day" went on to play Greg Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel.
5VWlQ TIL that Olive Oatman, a white girl kidnapped by Native Americans in 1851 and sold to the Mojave people as a slave, caused an uproar after returning to white society bare-breasted with blue tattoos across her face, which inspired the book "Life Among the Indians", an early American best seller.