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

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A9K4 TIL less than a month after the first traffic light went operational, it exploded and killed the unfortunate traffic cop who was operating it.
xLX1 TIL a cat purrs at the same rate as an idling diesel engine - roughly 26 cycles per second.
OGPML TIL about Tom Bryon the male adult film star who has over 3,200 videos accredited to him. In a study done at the end of his 30+ year career, it was determined he had recorded sexual relations with over 1,127 different women.
pY6kG TIL: The Maqlû is an ancient anti witchcraft Akkadian text. It is comprised of nearly 100 incantations that must be performed in one night to take the lives of evil sorcerers and witches. The ritual was mentioned in a letter from the exorcist Nabû-nādin-šumi to the Assyrian king Esarhaddon.
WkGld TIL about the Corps of Colonial Marines, a group of freed black American slaves, who participated for the United Kingdom in the War of 1812, including the Burning of Washington