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TIL farmers sometimes place large magnets in a cow's stomach to attract nails or small pieces of iron that the cow ingests. This prevents so called "Hardware Disease"

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X0AKR TIL that Angelina Jolie once tried to hire a hitman to kill her, because she felt that a murder would be easier on her family than her committing suicide. The would-be-hitman talked her out of it by asking her to wait a month.
XKv6 TIL: Inspired by a 1999 episode of The Simpsons, an Oregon man in 2003 grafted a tomato plant onto tobacco plant roots creating real-life “Tomacco.”
kJ15d TIL Elvis Presley was a natural blonde who used to dye his hair black.
9YpXM TIL around 10% of internet traffic is encrypted by a code generated from the random motion of a wall of lava lamps in San Francisco.
81GK TIL the “Double Dare” host and crew “laughed their asses off” when Nickelodeon marketed “Gak” toy slime (named after the “Double Dare” crew’s nickname for their show’s ever-present slime) as the word “gak” was actually a street term for heroin.