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TIL that USPS ships day old baby chicks in the mail

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bZ6E TIL that the PlayStation arose from a cancelled collaboration between Nintendo and Sony to integrate a CD drive into the SNES
YJYZ TIL: 32% of Iraqis are not sure if Allah exists, 11% of Iraqis think that Allah doesn’t exist
OGa96 TIL one of the earliest known account of Islam from a non-Islamic source is a manuscript called "The Teaching of Jacob" (634-640 AD) describing the conquest of Jerusalem by the Muslim army and mentioning a "prophet [who] had appeared, coming with the Saracens"
P1EkE TIL that the score to Fame was composed by Michael Gore, who won an Academy Award for doing so. He also scored Terms of Endearment. He is the younger brother of Lesley Gore, who sang It's My Party.
jNBBE TIL that in the War of the Triple Alliance, Paraguay lost over 90% of it's entire male population. Paraguayan women ended up outnumbering men with ratios of 4:1 or even 20:1 in some regions. As a result, the local catholic church authorized polygamy to rebuild the population