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TIL that Donkeys can be used as guard animals to protect livestock and have even been known to kill coyotes.

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M66B TIL the accent used by Tom Hanks in ‘Forrest Gump’ was actually the real-life accent of the boy that played young Forrest.
P11kZ TIL About the Resolute Desk, which was built from the scrap of the HMS Resolute. It has been used by most Presidents since 1880.
p8Brb TIL that at around 20 metres underwater gravity overtakes the buoyancy of your body and you start falling towards the centre of the earth.
AVv4 TIL that Homer Plessy, of Plessy v. Ferguson, was only one-eighth black, yet he was still discriminated against in Louisiana and required to sit in the “colored” railroad car.
EgVBw TIL that Okinawa Island, captured from Japan during the War in the Pacific, remained under American administration until 1972