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TIL an anti animal cruelty activist infiltrated an Idaho dairy farm. After exposing workers beating and sexually abusing cows, the Idaho legislature passed a bill making it illegal to film on farms and dairies.

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78LXL TIL around 1920, a man found 3 saplings growing in a row & grafted the central tree onto the 2 adjacent ones in a diagonal fashion to form the shape of the letter "N" in order to impress his girlfriend, Nellie. It was apparently successful as the couple later married. It's known as Nellie's Tree.
DQAOp TIL A 1965 study on social isolation in monkeys reported that while no monkeys died during the isolation, 1 of 6 monkeys isolated for 3 months refused to eat after release and died 5 days later. A 2nd animal refused to eat and would have died had they not resorted to forced feeding.
ANNbo TIL of Paparokades. A rock band formed by a group of Greek priests in the mid 90s in order to boost tourism to their monastery.
4kd46 TIL about the drafting tool known as a "french curve", which can let a person draw smooth curves of basically any desired curvature depending on the scale. It's a tool where you don't need any complicated measurements, and has a very large amount of uses from architecture to fashion!
XEgQk TIL that when Don Rosa, creator of the immensely popular modern Donald Duck comics (and "The Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck") tried to submit a comic book set in ancient Greece to the US mag Lexington Herald, its editor rejected it, stating: "We gear our comics toward a less intelligent audience".