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TIL that newborn foals have soft "tentacles" on their hooves. It's to protect the mother's uterus and birth canal from the sharp edges during pregnancy and birth.

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NDMQ TIL that in 2010, a woman named Lori Ruff committed suicide. Her husband’s family found a box among her possessions that contained name change documents and the birth certificate of a long-dead two-year-old girl. However, the true identity of Lori Ruff has now been discovered!
LQVk0 TIL: Nine percent of college-educated parents want their kid to play professional sports, versus forty-four percent of parents without a college degree.
ADJLd TIL In 1976 Matthew Adam Garber, the boy who played Micheal in Mary Poppins, died at the age of 21, from hepatitis that spread to his pancreas. There have always been rumors that Garber contracted the disease after unsafe drug use, but his family says it was from eating bad meat.
ZApQ TIL that the first privately owned Spaceport ever is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2013 and is in New Mexico.
Y7mgv TIL gum isn’t biodegradable. 105 tonnes of “gum” trash are produced each year.