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TIL Unibrows are attractive in Tajikistan

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PPWG TIL a hybrid of cattle and bison is called a Beefalo
PYJQO TIL, the US Department of Transportation was created in 1966 after congressional hearings prompted by the book "Unsafe at Any Speed" by Ralph Nader.
Lkwo0 TIL of Worker Policing. A brutal regulatory system in hives by which female workers will attach their queen and eat her sons if there are too many compared to their own sons, and sometimes will eat their own if the Queen's eggs are too few.
XgRD TIL that 23 year old, Joe Arridy, a intellectually disabled man with an IQ of 46, was wrongfully executed in 1939. He was known for playing with his toy train that the prison warden gave him as a present while on death row. Guards and Inmates described him as “the happiest prisoner on death row”
nRrW TIL hay bales that are too wet have a higher chance of spontaneously combusting, and “excessive moisture is the most common cause of hay fires.”