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TIL that most of the modern global poultry industry relies on a single breed of chicken from a farm in Connecticut that won the national “Chicken of Tomorrow” competition in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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KOWyG TIL Quigley Down Under and Lightning Jack are directed by the same person, one an American Cowboy in Australia, the other an Australian Cowboy in America.
781K7 TIL Russia has leased a 12-mile circle of Kazakhstan named Baikonur. Its purpose is for space operations.
j611E TIL that statues of biblical kings, located on the west facade of the Notre-Dame de Paris, were decapitated during the French Revolution because they were mistaken for statues of French kings
mx0wy TIL sexually-transmitted infections, STIs, may have driven ancient humans to monogamy from polygamy
OpRe TIL that the UK’s royal family’s last name ‘Windsor’ is actually taken from Windsor castle, rather than vice versa.