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TIL Halle Berry used to go on AOL chatrooms anonymously to have normal conversations. Whenever she revealed her true identity, no one believed her.

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lo8M5 TIL the bearded vulture feeds almost exclusively on bone. Bones that are too large to eat have to be dropped from the sky and shattered against rock. The process can take years to master and practiced individuals will often use one favored dropping site known as an ossuary.
Z8loR TIL The phrase "History is written by the victors" has never been proven to have originated from Winston Churchill or any one author. It is believed to have likely been inspired from Hermann Göring's quote: "We will go down in history as either the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains."
R7l87 TIL that the marker for the Four Corners Monument in the US where visitors put their bodies in four states at once, is off by 1,800 feet to the east meaning most tourists technically just visited New Mexico.
neBeG TIL that while the first state to pass a speed limit law happened in 1901 and limited the legal speed of motor vehicles to 12 mph in cities and 15 mph on country roads, the first motor vehicle to actually get a ticket was in a 2 mph zone.
rjbW TIL that most of the modern global poultry industry relies on a single breed of chicken from a farm in Connecticut that won the national “Chicken of Tomorrow” competition in the late 1940s and early 1950s.