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TIL: More than 60 Billion chickens are slaughtered each year for a total of 72 Billion land animals

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4XBYo TIL that Robespierre abolished slavery in French colonies in 1794, only for Napoleon to re-introduce slavery in 1802
YyrB TIL that the The Three Stooges were the first in Hollywood to criticize and mock Adolf Hitler on film with their short, ‘You Nazty Spy’
DQxlv TIL Brazil’s humanitarian crisis exposed suffering of Yanomami people under Bolsonaro government
ZKWa TIL that Wikipedia had to ban IP’s from Congress to stop them from changing each other’s entries.
N7Ke6 TIL in 2009 a UK and French nuclear ballistic submarines collided with each other as neither of them knew the other sub was nearby. They were submerged and running silent but were moving slowly enough that though the ships were damaged, there were no injuries nor radioactive releases.