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TIL There Are Almost 26.56 Billion Chickens in the World

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BrVed TIL: A couple hundred metalheads with kazoos showed up at Virginia's State Capital to counter protest the a Kansas-based hate group (Westboro Baptist Church. )
lop5r TIL that JFK had his cabinet staff read "The Guns of August", a book about the start of WWI in August 1914, during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1963, saying "I am not going to follow a course which will allow anyone to write a comparable book about this time, "The Missiles of October."
mxkry TIL European dragons are mostly featured as evil creatures, greedily hoarding gold, breathing fire on innocents, leaving a path of destruction in its wake. Asian dragons, however, are benevolent creatures, bringing good luck and prosperity wherever it goes.
ewnE TIL that during the Cold War, the US Army deployed Atomic Bazookas.
DoMP TIL there is a molecular gyroscope, a chemical compound in which a molecule can spin at 2,400,000,000,000 revolutions per second