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TIL that the dairy industry once lost 420 million dollars to a genetic flaw in a single bull

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p86Np Today I Learned that Matthew Perry (Chandler from Friends) made his debut on British television playing a shy character whose life changes for the better as he begins to charm people by throwing his dog in the air, in a show called "The Dog Thrower".
97Zp TIL: Frank Sinatra hated Rock and Roll “the most brutal, ugly, desperate vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.”
PYOGg TIL in 1976 Washington state repealed a sodomy law with the unintended consequence of decriminalizing bestiality. It became a criminal offense again 30 years later, after a man died from having sex with a horse.
8gRP TIL: Eggo waffles were originally called “Froffles”. “Eggo” was a name people began using to describe the egg-y taste, and the company eventually adopted the name.
0wMky TIL that the "hot hand fallacy" is itself a fallacy, caused by a common statistical error. Once correcting for that error, streaks or "hot hands" were found to exist in basketball.