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

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rRBDw TIL: A Belgian priest named Georges Lemaître was the first to suggest the big bang theory as the origin of creation in the 1920s, when he theorized that the universe began from a single primordial atom.
Gpxg TIL that there is a man in China who rents a house by the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge so that he can save the lives of suicidal jumpers.
rxXW TIL that the founding fathers officially stated in the Treaty of Tripoli that “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”.
5yyn TIL of the Cleveland Elementary School shooting which took place in 1979 in San Diego, California. A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, killed the principal and a custodian, and injured 8 children and a police officer. When asked by a reporter why she did it, she said “I don’t like Mondays.”
4XjQ6 TIL about Diggerland USA. It's an amusement park that has multiple locations around the world and offers not only standard amusement park fare like rides and food, it also allows young people to actually operate heavy machinery like bull dozers, excavators, and more.