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TIL that there is a job where people trim cow hooves, keeping the cows from going lame and having other issues.

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KYvA6 TIL in 1952, many of Adlai Stevenson's friends and associates led a "draft Stevenson" movement to make him run for President and continued even when he told them to stop.
9YvLp TIL that the British sent ships and men to the US at the start of WWII to protect us from German U-boats. One ship sank and all 37 men on-board died. Only 4 washed up on shore. A special "British Cemetery" was created and it is leased in perpetuity to England so the men are at rest on British soil
x6jxk TIL In Africa, peanuts are a source of nutrition in a region where child malnutrition is rampant. In West African cuisine Peanuts flavour everything from soups, salads, stews, marinades
R76PQ TIL that Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world and six-time Olympic gold medalist, has never run a mile.
GYJbG TIL of MLB player Lenny Dykstra who paid a team of private investigators $500,000 to dig up dirt on MLB umpires. He used the information to leverage a more favorable strike zone during games.