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TIL Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find

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VBQ08 TIL during World War 2, Pittsburgh produced more steel and iron than all Axis powers—combined.
yQJAa TIL During WW2, because Ireland remained neutral during the conflict, many Irish soldiers deserted and joined Britain's military to fight the Nazis. Ireland deprived these soldiers of pension, unemployment benefits, and public sector jobs (for 7 years) as punishment.
8ea1b TIL about the Cowbird Mafia that destroy the eggs of smaller birds that refuse to raise cowbird eggs
KO5aR TIL Ruthie Tompson, one of the animators of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Fantasia, and Sleeping Beauty, is still alive. She is 110 years old
5VwOk TIL former german Chancellor Gerhard Schröder was known as the "Audi Man" on account of his then-4 (now 5) marriages. He's also known as "Der Herr der Ringe" (the Lord of the Rings)