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TIL Cows are actually really good swimmers and in Ireland they’re taken by boat to graze on offshore islands!

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16DGV TIL - About fluoroantimonic acid, it's the world's strongest acid and trillions of times more acidic than sulfuric acid
KYjkw TIL that skeptical investigator Mick West co-founded Neversoft and was the lead programmer of the first five Tony Hawk's Pro Skater titles.
wLloY TIL serial killer David Berkowitz wrote a letter telling the D.C. sniper to "stop hurting innocent people"
W7j1Y TIL the duodenum acts as a degustator, food taster or sommelier, it receives a sample of the digested food in the form of chyme, for test, it analyses macro/micro nutrients, and gives signals for a specialised concoction of bile acids to be released. Once it give the green light, digestion proceeds.
MewW TIL Muslims do not “struggle” to pray in space, and Islamic scholars have convened on the topic twice and published their scholarly opinions in “Muslim Obligations in the International Space Station”