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TIL of Hanlon's razor which states: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

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NXBVb TIL, that cougar's mating call sounds like murder of woman
k0NE TIL that the Labrador Retriever was bred in Newfoundland, and the Newfoundland dog was bred in Labrador.
wLmm8 TIL that the groundwork for modern medical training - which is infamous for its grueling hours and workload that often lead to burnout - was laid by a physician who was addicted to cocaine, which he was injecting into himself as an experimental anesthetic.
4Xxpg TIL of the Tea-Horse-Road. During Imperial-era, the Chinese noticed that Tibetans prized tea so much, they would trade high-quality horses for tea-bricks. As they needed warhorses to fight nomads, the Chinese set up a government office to sell tea for Tibetan horses, creating the Tea-Horse Road.
PYb6g TIL Nashville Zoo is located on property that was once a 300-acre slave holding farm. When construction for the zoo began in 1997, this graveyard was not disturbed. It was only in 2013 did the zoo petition to have the bodies exhumed, revealing 9 to 30 African-Americans buried there