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TIL a dairy farm in Hong Kong, despite having no cattle on site, has been churning out some 4000 bottles of “fresh milk” made of formula everyday since 2008 without the public’s knowledge

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KpKQ TIL Japanese police fire bright orange permanent paint-balls at fleeing vehicles so that other police vehicles can see them and identify them at a later date if they get away.
xV1Z7 TIL of the Bitter electromagnet, the strongest example of which produces a field 9 times stronger than an MRI machine, consuming almost 10% of a nuclear power station’s output to do so. Smaller versions were used to levitate frogs.
4X7k6 TIL that a 61yo Californian man Gregory McFadden after suffering for more than a decade with a medical condition that rendered him unable to sleep and eat properly decided to commit suicide by jumping off a helicopter mid-flight. However, he survived the jump and later died at the hospital.
oBeaW TIL About Vincent Louis Gigante, an American mob boss who feigned insanity for 30 years to escape prosecution. Called “The Oddfather” and “The Enigma in the Bathrobe” by the press, he often wandered the streets of New York’s Village in his bathrobe and slippers, mumbling incoherently to himself.
j6PrE TIL under rare circumstances, it is possible for human sperm to travel up the fallopian tube, through the ovarian tissue, and penetrate the wall of an intact ovarian follicle to reach the ovum and fertilize the egg before ovulation occurs