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TIL that there are several breeds of Chicken called Naked Neck, identified by complete lack of most plumage on the neck and head

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kMbg TIL in Southwest’s 50-year history, the only person ever killed in an aircraft accident was a person riding inside a car when an airplane overran the runway.
aMNL TIL that in 1763, a vigilante group, the Paxton Boys, massacred the Conestoga indian tribe, near Lancaster Pennsylvania. The few native american survivors were put in jail as protective custody, the jail was broken into and the indians were slaughtered.
J1d88 TIL After his death John Belushi was found to have 26 recent needle marks in his arm
nWGeb TIL of Mariya Oktyabrskaya. When her soldier husband was killed in 1941, she sold her possessions, bought a T34 tank nicknamed The Fighting Girlfriend and relentlessly fought Nazis. When the vehicle took a hit, and despite orders, Maria jumped out of the tank to fix it under enemy fire.
eGkD TIL Europeans feared eating tomatoes for 200 years, because when wealthy Europeans using pewter plates, high in lead content, ate tomatoes off the plates, the high acidity in tomatoes would cause the fruit to leach lead from the plate, resulting in many deaths from lead poisoning