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TIL that most of the Methane produced by cows comes from Belching and not farting

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QJN69 TIL of "soft despotism": a state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. It gives people the illusion that they are in control, when in fact they have very little influence over their government.
awPLJ TIL In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a graduation speech at Harvard University where she encouraged graduates to capitalize on the power of their imagination. It quickly became Harvard's most-viewed commencement address and also published as a book
rRbK4 TIL that as Pres. Grover Cleveland and his wife were moving out of the White House, she told staff to take care of the place because "We are coming back four years from today." Cleveland won another term and moved back in four years later.
5RBr TIL that a man served 5 months in Rikers Island Prison because no one told him his bail was only $2.00.
y97p TIL singer-songwriter Jim Croce financed his first album in 1966 with a $500 wedding gift from his parents, who hoped that he would give up music after the album failed. He died in a plane crash in 1973, 5 albums and 11 singles later.