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TIL Kaninhoppning (lit. Bunny Hopping) Is the Rabbit Version of Show Jumping

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nWB89 TIL that commercial airline pilots wear uniforms resembling naval officers because Pan Am established this tradition with its fleet of flying boats. To align with the nautical nature, they adopted naval-style uniforms, a practice continued today
dDXPj TIL in the 1800s the USDA gave farmers an herbicide to combat ragwort, a weed toxic to horses and cows. They'd spray sodium chlorate but get some on their pants. The dried sodium chlorate was high highly flammable leading to an epidemic of EXPLODING PANTS.
Oo5Z6 TIL that in 1998 USA, more fast-food employees were murdered on the job than police officers.
R71a7 TIL of a unique species of lobsters that are not only coloured differently, but half of their body is male and half of it is female - they are called "gynandromorphs"
5Y7gD TIL that the original Halloween series was supposed to branch into a anthology series of horror films based on the night of Halloween. However due to the popularity of Michael Myers, it caused the third film which was based on a separate story, to fail at the box office.