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TIL Scientists concluded that the chicken came first not the egg, because the protein which makes egg shells is only produced by hens.

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x6bKw TIL about a TV Game show - Our Little Genius, which was accused of being rigged by one the contestant's parents, and Fox pulled it before telecast. Since the show never aired FCC couldn't conduct any investigation.
GYv8g TIL Johann Sebastian Bach did not write the Minuets in G major and G minor, BWV Anh. 114 and 115, but were by composed by another German composer Christian Petzold, which, through their appearance in the 1725 Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, used to be attributed to Bach.
EyVw TIL that knighthood in Normandy had little social status prior to the crusades. Knights were poor and “land-hungry”. The title only represented professional warriors who were able to own a war horse.
8ajE4 TIL the "Tarpeian Rock" is a cliff, some distance higher at 80 feet in Roman times, that was used by the Roman public to execute criminals and perceived traitors for over 300 years
E1Nyo TIL that Elizabeth Taylor once reached out to Marlyin Monroe privately and told her “No matter what they write about me, Marilyn, I never deny it. I never confirm it. I just keep smiling and walking forward. You do the same." after the press constantly tried to pit the two against each other.