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TIL about Butteri, Italian cowboys. When Buffalo Bill toured in Italy with his Wild West Show in 1890, the Butteri, led by Augusto Imperiali, challenged his troupe and won proving far more experience.

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1aQED TIL, Johnny Cash was brutally attacked by an ostrich he kept in a wildlife park, it broke 2 ribs and slashed his stomach open. As a result of the pain pills he was prescribed, he fell back into drug addiction years after overcoming them.
jNDBp TIL that Louis Wain, the Artist from Edwardian England, famous for his psychedelic depictions of cats, was influential in the species' transition from tolerated "mouse catchers" to beloved pets and figures in popular culture.
OAl6 TIL that the United States consumes 80% of the world’s supply of pain killers. Annually the pain killers kill more Americans than cocaine and heroin combined.
nWxQd TIL about The Euthanasia Coaster, a hypothetical steel roller coaster designed as a euthanasia device to kill its passengers. The concept was conceived in 2010 and made into a scale model by Lithuanian artist Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Urbonas, who ha
j6RoR TIL about Neil Harbisson, the world's first officially-recognized cyborg. He has an antenna surgically implanted into his skull through which he can receive information in the form of vibrations.