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TIL Rinsing bacon under cold water before frying can reduce the amount it shrinks by almost 50 percent.

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kO8ZB TIL free-ranging cats kill billions of birds annually in the US. They are the the #1 anthropogenic cause of death for birds
MeYa TIL Xiang Yu the night before attacking the Qin dynasty burnt all his own boats and cooking equiptment so his troops had no other option but to fight till victory or perish
oRylK TIL King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia are cousins
Z8ge4 TIL that in 1968, the US army accidentally killed 6,000 sheep on ranch land north of its biological and chemical weapons testing facility known as the Dugway Proving Ground. The Skull Valley Sheep Kill - as it came to be known, was caused by the open air testing of a highly toxic nerve agent "VX".
rRppM TIL That a dog named Stella was taught how to communicate using buttons , while each button serves as a different voice line.