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TIL how a shipping error 100 years ago launched the $30 billion chicken industry

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An9g TIL that when people without access to mirrors (or clear water in which to view their reflections) are first exposed to them, their reaction tends to be very negative.
D1dXj TIL about Alexander Bogdanov, a Russian physician who experimented with blood transfusion to gain eternal youth. He died after injecting himself with blood from a student infected with malaria and tuberculosis, who also may have been the wrong blood type.
J1Jo1 TIL that at least some of the Findus ads done by Orson Welles - as documented in the "Frozen Peas outtakes - are available online
wLreP TIL that the term “spook” was a popular slur for black people during WII. Its use was especially prevalent in the military. Nazi Germany’s Air Force was called the “Luftwaffe” so some people referred to the African-American Tuskegee Airmen as the “Spookwaffe”, including the pilots themselves.
woGJo TIL in a group of 23 randomly selected people there is a 50% chance that at least two of them have the same birthday