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TIL There Are Almost 26.56 Billion Chickens in the World

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g48L TIL: “Teardrop” by Massive Attack was chosen to be the opening sequence of House because the song roughly mimics the sound of a beating human heart.
GAAdg TIL that humanities ancestors used to be able to synthesize Vitamin C in their body, but lost the ability due to mutation, analog to other species.
w1p6 TIL film Critic Roger Ebert was quoted saying, “I would rather attend a dusk-to-dawn Chris Farley film festival than sit through any 5 minutes of (Pauly Shore in) Jury Duty.”
XE5pP TIL A study showed that not only kids, but even adults sleep better while being gently rocked. Participants of the study fell asleep faster, slept more deeply and woke up less in beds that rocked them throughout the night.
NXkdN TIL Toothbrushes release thousands of microplastics into your mouth every time you brush