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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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xVXQ1 TIL that a Norwegian 10 year old once took his 18 month old sister on a trip to his grandparents in his parents car. 10km down the road he ended up in a ditch and when police turned up he claimed to be a dwarf!
EleX TIL Julian Lennon had to buy the letters he wrote to his father (John Lennon) at an auction, because Yoko Ono wouldn’t give them to him.
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a89LJ TIL A contaminated rooftop air-conditioning unit at the Opera House Hotel in the Bronx caused the biggest outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in New York, where 12 people died