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TIL the actor who played the farmer in the movie Babe decided to go vegan after working closely with the “extraordinary animals” in the film.

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KY6GG TIL about "Sham" surgeries in which a placebo group is told they received a surgery when in fact they only had a small skin incision while sedated. In one study, those in the placebo group reported the same shoulder pain relief as those getting the actual shoulder surgery
8aJYa TIL that there is no closed formula that can be used to exactly find perimeter of a Ellipse like a circle or square. We can only approximate it values.
wLR7M TIL that in 1984, British new wave pop group Thompson Twins released a video game on a vinyl record. Players had to copy the game from the vinyl disc to a cassette tape, which could then be played on a ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64 computer.
1eXV TIL that a woman fell to her death BASE jumping from Yosemite’s El Capitan as part of a protest intended to prove the safety of BASE jumping. Her husband filmed the fall from the meadow below.
GYr7g TIL the Emperor Tamarin got its name for its resemblance to German emperor Wilhelm II