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TIL that in the 1950s there was a British plan to plant nuclear mines in Germany to prevent a potential Soviet invasion with the mines being kept warm in the winter using live chickens. The idea was considered so outlandish it when it was declassified it was thought to be an April Fools joke..

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9wVEp TIL that "Project Steve", a list of scientists with the first name Steven/Stephen who support evolution, has 1400 signatures since 2003; it was made in response to a 2001 petition "A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism" collecting signatures of 700 scientists critical of evolution
YpO6P TIL that, in 1965, a radio personality in Vancouver committed to living on the top of the massive Bowmac car dealership sign until all the cars were sold. He had been poisoning his wife with arsenic for months, and the nine day gap in the poisoning would later get him convicted of her murder.
YpRev TIL in 2013, Guinness World Records named 'Breaking Bad' the highest-rated TV series of all time, citing its season 5 Metacritic score of 99 out of 100.
VB1lp TIL: IPAs came from beer being shipped from England to India in barrels, the beer needed higher alcohol and hop content to preserve it, so they created a new style of beer.
KOw4a TIL Between 90 and 95 percent of meteors that approach Earth burn up in our atmosphere. The asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere in 2013 over Russia broke 15 miles above the ground and generated a shock wave equivalent to a 500-kiloton explosion