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TIL of a farm in Japan where pigs are given green tea in place of water to help with stress relief, flavor, and potential disease

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DEOj TIL that in an experiment where a kitten was raised in the same cage as a rat, the cat not only refrained from attacking the rat, but the two became close companions, and the cat refused to chase or kill any other rats as well.
E1BYp TIL the Monkees never outsold the Beatles and Rolling Stones (as widely reported). Michael Nesmith was giving an interview in 1977 and lied. "It isn’t too well known that we sold over 35 million records in 1967", said Nesmith. He wondered if it was too outrageous, the next day it was printed as fact
ADDn4 TIL that in 2003, during a case involving stolen lunar samples,a federal court set the value of the moon rocks at $50,800 per gram based on how much it cost the U.S. government to retrieve the samples between 1969 and 1972.
6EQ07 TIL that like homo sapiens, tasmanian devils are the last surviving species of their genus.
nwLo TIL haggis is illegal in the US because one of its key ingredients is sheep lungs.