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TIL if you find an uninhabited island covered in guano you are allowed to take it for yourself in the name of the USA

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gDEA TIL male chicks of egg-laying chicken strains serve no purpose in agriculture and are killed by high speed grinders, poisonous gas, neck breaking, electrocution, or suffocation as soon as their sex is determinable.
69Kow TIL there have been several documented cases where golfers were accidentally killed by the shaft of their golf club after it broke.
WJR8 TIL America buys old Soviet warheads to convert to nuclear energy, providing 50% of their nuclear energy.
QNbv9 TIL Mike Myers based Austin Powers on his dad.
ne8EW TIL Ben Franklin was such an incredible swimmer that he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1968.