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TIL Hens can lay eggs without mating with Roosters, and that eggs that are not fertilized will not develop into young chicks, so technically we're not murdering chicks when eating unfertilized eggs

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dOVK TIL: tradition says that when entering a house or any other building, samurais had to leave their katana with a servant, but the wakizashi (a shorter katana) could be worn at all times and places. This is why the wakizashi is often called the samurai’s side arm
4kXrb TIL about “teaser” stallions whose job it is to tell if a mare is ready for mating. He never gets to do the actual mating - the valuable stallion does. Kind owners sometimes give him a “consolation mare” to mate so he doesn't get sexually frustrated with his job.
rRdDo TIL When an image remained on an old computer screen for too long, the image got "burned" into the screen. To stop this from happening, developers created moving images that would "save" the screen from being burned when it was idle. This is where we get the term "screen saver" from.
KOY7G TIL AT&T forced Apple to block Skype calls on the iPhone between 2007-2009 because it competed with their own service
OoyV1 TIL when George Lucas was searching for a studio to produce Star Wars in 1973, he approached Disney, who turned him down.