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TIL Americans mostly eat white chicken meat and export the rest to Russia/Asia where dark meat is preferred, so most chickens get split in two and sent around the world.

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VMPJp TIL during the Korean War, American and Greek soldiers at Outpost Harry defended against multiple Chinese assaults of far greater numbers. At times being outnumbered 30:1, massive artillery bombardments and intense hand-to-hand fighting were daily occurrences. The Chinese failed to take the outpost.
KYZXG TIL: After the first Bush retired, he noticed all his agents had shaved their heads. He asked why and was told it was in support of the son of one of them who was undergoing chemo. So Bush shaved his head too.
Aexw TIL - Heinz ketchup has the number 57 on it just because H.J. Heinz thought it was luckier than 60 which was the number of varieties of their products at the time.
QYed TIL Subaru put seats in the back of their Brat compact pickup to cut the import duty from 25% to 2.5% by calling it a ‘car’
Lk95Q TIL the band Iron Maiden has their own Boeing 747 named after their mascot, Eddy, and their lead vocalist Bruce Dickinson is the pilot.