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TIL that the color of a chicken's earlobe determines the color of the eggs it lays. If the ear lobe is brown (or red), the egg is brown, and if it is white, the egg is also white

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neb8G TIL: Male praying mantises can still continue mating even after being decapitated by the female
DNZg TIL Composer Sergei Prokofiev lived near Red Square and died the day Stalin’s death was announced, and it was impossible to carry his body out for 3 days due to the crowds. His death was mentioned on page 116 of the leading Russian musical publication, with the first 115 devoted to Stalin.
y16X TIL that, despite his wealth, King Farouk of Egypt (1920-65) was a kleptomaniac, going so far as to steal a pocket watch from Winston Churchill. Once, having suffered a nightmare in which he was chased by an angry lion, he went to Cairo Zoo and shot all the lions in their cages.
neGBo TIL in the UK, Superman was portrayed in an anti-smoking campaign against his arch rival Nick O’Teen - an evil villain who looked like a human cigarette butt with yellow stained teeth. The campaign was aimed at kids aged 7 to 11 and 800,000 of them ask for an anti-smoking campaign pack via the mail.
JXQj TIL The Cuyahoga River was so polluted it actually caught on fire. 13 fires later the gov’t was spurred onto to create the Clean Water Act and the EPA