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TIL National Band & Tag used to manufacture rose-colored Chicken Glasses to help stop chickens from pecking at each other. The sight of blood intensified the pecking instinct in chickens, so the rose-colored lenses made the red disappear, thus reducing cannibalis

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N496 TIL that 95% of historic mosques and monuments (many 1000 yrs old) in Mecca were torn down by the Saud family to make hotels, palaces and libraries.
Mm97 TIL because of its very low freezing point, whale oil saw widespread use in the aerospace industry.
NX71 TIL in a speech to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Iranian Vice President said that Zionists ordered gynaecologists to kill black babies, caused the Bolshevik revolution and control the international drug trade
M7g1b Today I learned that commercial airlines regularly almost crash into each other
WXJd TIL An American cannot be stripped of citizenship by the government for any reason, including treason or foreign military service. He or she must willingly choose to renounce it.