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TIL that more than 50 billion chickens are killed for food every year.

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1a45X TIL when Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco was assasinated in 1973, the bomb was so powerful that it sent his car flying over the roof of a building and into the courtyard.
D18Er TIL that Uranus is the only planet that rolls horizontally as it orbits the sun, due to an early planetary collision that knocked it sideways
OopOe TIL the oldest active missing persons case is that of Marvin Alvin Clark (b. 1852, disappeared 1926). His current age would be approximately 169 years old.
0wBkM TIL that Area 51, aka Homey Airport or Groom Lake, was actually a testing facility for historical, technologically advanced military planes such as the Lockheed A-12. The US government's secrecy over the nature of these vehicles is what gave birth to myths about UFOs.
aww9M TIL that since the term Least Developed Country was introduced by the UN in 1971 only four countries have improved to Developing Countries (Botswana in 1994, Cabo Verde in 2007, Maldives in 2011 and Samoa in 2014)