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TIL Chickens are easily hypnotised by drawing a line in front of them

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WkpZN TIL about Richard L. McKinley, who died in a nuclear plant accident. His body ended so contaminated that had to be buried in a lead-lined casket which was then sealed in concrete and placed in a metal vault and cannot be moved from its location without the approval of the Atomic Energy Commission.
M7j4V Today I learned that 95% of international internet traffic goes through undersea cables
ZVko TIL its national sleepy head day in Finland. Where the last person asleep in the house is woken up by either being thrown into water or have water dumped on them.
LQgy9 TIL: The Mediterranean Sea has a high salinity because around 5 million years ago it, for not 100% known reasons, dried up for roughly 500,000 years.
0dMy1 TIL Most newborns cry for 45 minutes to two hours every day during the first six months of life because crying is the only way they communicate