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TIL that as of 2017, there was over 22 billion chickens on the planet, an increase of 12 billion from 1990.

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16RW4 TIL: For decades, people pronounced the year 2000 as "twenty hundred" since it came after the 1800s and 1900s. But for the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey", Stanley Kubrick included specific instructions for journalists to refer to the movie as "two thousand and one"
gM8L9 TIL Sesame Street has had a parody Grouch, Donald Grump, since the 1980’s. “His name is on every piece of trash in town”.
OoGB4 TIL that in 2013 Washington state gave Boeing an $8.7b tax break to "maintain and grow its workforce within the state" - the largest tax break in history. Boeing then cut its workforce in the state by 15%
GPZ7 TIL That there used to be pills that contained tapeworms, and when you lost the amount of weight you wanted to lose, you would take a second pill that killed the tapeworm.
lrAA TIL That Tailgating is the Primary Cause of Traffic Jams