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TIL that cows get most of their proteins by digesting bacteria from their rumen that ended up in their stomach

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kOROg TIL that biologist Tyrone Hayes published an experiment that showed pesticide Atrazine was turning frogs from male to female. In response, manufacturer Syngenta spent years spying on him and conducting an extensive campaign to create a scandal that would end his career.
awpGJ TIL that actor Errol Flynn had such massive genital warts upon his death that Vancouver's chief pathologist removed them and soaked them in formaldehyde to allow medical students to research them. When the city's coroner heard this, he immediately scotch taped Flynn's warts back onto to his penis.
jNLdp TIL “Für Elise”, one of Beethoven’s best known masterpieces, was not discovered and published until 40 years after his funeral.
Meeva Everything, from your attempt to scoop it up to eat it, would be bad.
1Ovd TIL that Jim Abbott, a Major League Baseball pitcher for 10 years, not only won a gold medal in the 1988 Olympics, but also pitched a no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians in 1993 and was elected to the College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007, all while only having one hand.