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TIL chickens sing an "egg song" that can go on for several minutes after laying an egg, and we're not sure why.

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VM8rk TIL a group of Imperial Japanese Navy cadets planned to start a war with the United States in 1932 by murdering Charlie Chaplin, who was in the country at the time.
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