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

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ADQVl TIL Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) never intended the apples he planted to be eaten whole. He intended for them to be made into hard apple cider.
e4wL TIL: There’s a sports team in Liberal, KS named the Liberal Bee Jays. A semi-professional baseball team, they have won five national championships and 13 state championships. The Bee Jays have been coached by three major league managers and have sent 165 players to the major leagues.
1a7k4 TIL A printer's devil was an apprentice in a printing establishment who performed a number of tasks such as mixing ink and fetching type. Many notable men served as printer's devils in their youth,including Ambrose Bierce, Benjamin Franklin,Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and John Kellogg
wLwgo TIL that in 1966 Harper Lee donated $10 to a school board that tried to ban To Kill a Mockingbird with a note that said “I hope [the $10] will be used to enroll the Hanover County School Board in any first grade of its choice.”
Yppex TIL children as young as three are able to recognize the same 'cute' infantile facial features (a set of traits known as the 'baby schema') across different species. They also find images of adult dog faces cuter than both adult cats and human faces.